... . She yearns to earn her own keep, to work like a man', taking up copying work that she hides from her husband, deriving a guilty pleasure from defying some of the social expectations of females, which dictate that the husband is the master of the household, as well as the sole breadwinner. Torvald, as the male presence in the household, exerts his dominance ... to learn to support themselves, to struggle along' without a husband to take care of them is shown through the comparison between Nora and Mrs. Linde. Nora's pampered lifestyle is at great odds with Mrs. Linde's difficult working...

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