A+Doll's+House

=__**Characters**__=
 * **__Nora:__**The main character of the play, married to Torvald Helmer. She is controlled by her husband but finally realizes and leaves to become educated.


 * __**Torvald Helmer:**__ Married to Nora, works at the bank and treats Nora like a child because he feels superior to her.


 * __**Krogstad:**__ A lawyer and a friend of Torvalds who works at the bank.


 * __**Mrs. Linde:**__ A friend from Nora's past, she is a nice women who is very poor and comes to look for work with Torvald.


 * __**Dr. Rank:**__ Torvalds best friend, he avoids talking to Torvald about his death that he knows is coming.

Symbols in a Doll's House
 * __**Bob, Emmy, and Ivar:**__ Nora and Torvalds three children. When Nora leaves, she feels that she may corrupt her children and that she needs to become educated first so she refuses to interact with them.

The Christmas Tree
The Christmas tree symbolizes Nora’s position in her household as a toy who is pleasing to look at and adds charm to the home. Nora tells maid that the children cannot see the tree until it has been decorated, she also tells Torvald that no one can see her in her dress until the evening of the dance. At the beginning of the second act, after Nora begins to fall apart and the Christmas tree is refered to as “dishevelled.”

New Year’s Day
Nora and Torvald both look forward to New Year’s as the start of a new, happier phase in their lives. Torvald will start his new job, he is excited and wants the extra money. Nora also looks forward to Torvald’s new job, because she will finally be able to repay her secret debt to Krogstad. By the end of the play the nature of the new start that New Year’s represents for Torvald and Nora has changed. They both must become new people and face different ways of living. The new year comes to mark the beginning of a truly new and different period in both their lives and their personalities.