I read the second act of A Doll's House. In this act Kristine arrives to help Nora repair a dress for a costume party she and Torvald are going to tomorrow. When Torvald came home from work Nora begged for him to give Krogstad back his job. She lies and says that she is afraid that Krogstad will publish lies about him in an article, but he dismisses her notion. Dr. Rank, a family friend, announces that that he has entered the terminal stage of tuberculosis. Now Krogstad is asking for more than just his job back, but a promotion.
Krogstad informs Nora that he has written a letter detailing her crime and puts it in Torvald's mailbox, which is locked. Nora tells Kristine of her predicament. Kristine says that she and Krogstad were in love before she married, and promises that she will try to convince him to relent.
My personal reaction to this reading is that Nora should just come clean to what she has done, because there should be honesty in a relationship. I also think that Torvald should be understanding because she was only trying to help him. I think the author's intent was to show how hard women had it back in that time. The organizational pattern that i see is that the events in the play are presented in chronological order.
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