This childish sulking obviously works with Torvald as he immediately produces £4o pounds for his little lark'.
This child-like act not only gets her what she wants but also helps her cover up her lies. This can be shown when Torvald is questioning her about the macaroons and it is here where we see her seemingly insignificant yet outright lie as she tells her husband I could never deceive you'. This is a crucial line in the play because it shows precisely how treacherous this woman is. At this particular point in the play we have not witness her lie about anything significant and so we dismiss it as a little white lie. However the sincerity of the line with which it is spoken is shocking if you take it in context with the rest of the play. But the audience is already in favour of our heroine' because of her sweet playful nature. .
That is why this first scene is so important. It makes us feel like we should protect Nora and that she is not capable of any doing any wrong, at least intentionally. .
Next we see a slightly more selfish side to Nora but it is not frowned upon because it is still within the realms of this childish facade.
Mrs Linde makes her first appearance in the play and we find out that she is an old friend of Nora's. We hear of her hardships from the past few years involving deaths and ill family members. Nora does not seem to take any of it in. she seems far more eager to talk about how these last eight years have been so truly happy' which we know to be false as the family has been struggling with money problems. She feels the need to brag about her life in order to prove her self to Mrs Linde. We witness things like this in a playground after Christmas when children are talking about the toys that they did not really receive. And so, because we associate Nora's act with this we forgive her. Even when the bragging seems to get a little nastier we continue to dismiss it because of her seeming innocence.
