1st Response

A Dolls House Act One First Response

The first Act of a dolls house introduces some of the main characters in the story. The first person you meet is Nora and she seems like a sweet innocent lady who is kind of a shopoholic. The we meet her husband Helmer who seems like a man who wants everything under control. He also got a a new job at a bank, and is making much more money now, which seems to make Nora extremely happy.A Dolls House begins with the husband and wife Nora, and Torvald, having a discussion. While they are talking you first think that Torvald Helmer is talking to his daughter but then later you realize it is his wife.  Another question I would love to ask the author is, is why he would have the dialogue like this. Did he want to make Helmer seem like the head of the house, or like he was superior to women. This is how certain parts of the dialogue between the husband and the wife came across to me. It was not the actual words he was saying, it was the way it seemed he said creation things to her. but then again it is a play this is just the way that i interpreted the conversation between the two of them. Later on we also meet the character Mrs. Linde who we do not know really much about other than she is a widow, her mother died, and she has two younger brothers who she no longer has to take care of or provide for (Isben 14). So another question that i would have for the author would be about Mrs. Linde. She kind of just came into the story with really knowing much about her, and every time we start to find something out it seemed like Nora would interrupt her and tell more about herself. Why would the author not really let us know who she really is? Act one of the play does not really tell us where she came from or really who Mrs. Linde is. Hopefully reading on there will be an explanation of how Mrs. Linde ended up at Nora's house. The first act of the play definitely leaves more to come, and also many more questions to be answered based on what this play is about. But, as far as everything has gone up, to this point in the story, i am definitely enjoying it!
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