2nd Response

2nd Outside Reading Response

Continuing reading this play it keeps getting more interesting. I have now reached a point in the play where Mrs. Linde and and Nora are having a discussion about what has been going on in their lives since they had last seen each other. for example their good doings, accomplishments, and other details in between. At first it seemed as though Nora did not really have much to say, but Mrs. Linde on the other hand did. As I kept reading though Nora poured out one of her deepest secrets to Mrs. Linde. She had told her about when her and her husband were stuck in Europe for a really long time (Isben 15-21). They could not leave Europe due to her husband Helmer's illness.  For them to leave they had to pay a great deal of money, that they did not have at that time. Nora did confess to using all their money for her needs. So, Nora told her that they had to go through a very risky procedure to get the money they needed. I found it to be quite interesting that she would forge her own father's signature to access money. Her father was ill, and he could not sign but still the fact that she didn't even ask his permission, or even tell him was kind of surprising. That is a very dangerous, and illegal thing to do. When explaining the story to Mrs. Linde, Nora explained that she thought it was a risk worth taking, even know all the repercussions that could happen to her. To this day, her husband does not know that she had done this for him. the only person who now knows is Mrs. Linde. My overall reaction to this was I was kind of surprised, and I thought it was a little weird. I feel like she should have at least to her father, and if not him than her husband so that incase she did get into trouble someone else but her knew what was going on. Lets say she did get in trouble for forging the signature, and she had told her husband, he could defend her and help her get out of the situation, rather then her having to go through it alone. 

After Nora had told Mrs. Linde all of this, she barely had a reaction. Instead she just brought up the fact that she needed to fins a job, now that she was on her own. After reading this section I kind of feel like maybe the only reason that Mrs. Linde came to see Nora, was for Nora to help her find a job. I think that Mrs. Linde is not a genuine person, and she is just using Nora.
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