Nora from "A Doll's House" and Walter from "A Raisin in the Sun" follow the same creed. They both want more than society wants to give them. Although their sex and race are different, they are one in the same in that they want to break from the mold, launch a rebellion against everything people have become used to and comfortable with.
Nora's rebellion was when she left Torvald and her children. The society she lived in demanded that she should submit to her husband and that she should take a place under him. Society considered women to be property of their husbands and that they should fulfill their every command. When Krogstad tries to blackmail Nora, and Torvald didn't even support her she realized that there was a problem. Then finally when Torvald realizes that his social stature will not be harmed he displays his real feeling for Nora, both physically and emotionally. It is at this time when Nora decides that she doesn't want to be controlled by Torvald anymore and she told him that she was going to leave him. By leaving Torvald she is not only shutting him out but also forgetting everything in her past. When Torvald tries to reconcile with her she explains that all her life she was treated like a child. And how she was "lighthearted"(II: 285), not happy, she never got to make any decisions on her own. .
Then she explains to him how she wants to grow into a responsible mature woman. She says, "I believe that, before all else, I'm a human being, no less than you-or anyway, I ought to try to be one"(II: 315-16).
Nora's rebellion was deliberate and well planned. She knew what was expected of her and she still did what she thought was right in her own mind. The author uses these rebellions to show the faults in society in that day. Even though she did what was right she was still looked down upon by society. Torvald, along with all of society condemned her for doing it.
Walter was rebelling against a much greater force, however.