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For eight years, Nora wanted a perfect life. She was the wife that her husband Torvald has wanted her to be – dancing and reciting poems
for him, being the dutiful housewife and mother. She presents an illusion that she and Torvald live a happy life. Towards the end of the poem, Nora
hopes her husband will risk his life and sacrifice his reputation to help her with the blackmail situation she is caught up in.
Nora realizes that her desire is a miracle that will not happen.
Nora comes to the realization that Torvald will not make sacrifices for her as she has done for him when he becomes angered after reading the
blackmail letter from Krogstad. When Torvald begins to talk about how his reputation will be ruined and that he will never be able to forgive
her for putting him in that situation, it then that she realizes he is not concerned about her at all.
Nora makes the decision to leave her children, home, and marriage. Despite Torvald’s pleas, Nora walks away from what she has known into
the unknown in search of finding herself.