In A Doll's House, appearances proved to be misleading and masked the reality of the play's characters and situations. The first impressions of Nora, Torvald, and Krogstad are all eventually contradicted. In the beginning Nora initially seems a silly, childish woman, but as the play progresses, she seemed intelligent, motivated, and, by the end of the play, a strong-willed, independent thinker. Torvald, who was thought of as the strong, caring husband, exposed himself to b