In the play A Doll House by Henrik Ibsen, Ibsen tells the story of a wife and mother who has not only been wronged by society, but also by her beloved father and husband because of his gender. Nora left her father's house as a naive daughter and then passed into the hands of her husband, forcing her to be a naive wife and mother, or so her husband thinks. When Nora's husband, Torvald, becomes deathly ill, she takes matters into her own hands and illegally obtains a loan that will give her the means to save her husband's life. Her well-kept secret is then used against her, to exhort Torvald, who had no idea that his wife was or could be anything more than he created her to be. However, Nora has many unrecognized dimensions: “In addition to being lovable, Nora is selfish, frivolous, seductive, unprincipled, and deceitful” (Rosenberg and Templeton 894). Nora is a dynamic character because her father and husband treat her like a child and don't allow her to have her own thoughts and opinions, as the show progresses she breaks free from the shackles of her gender expectations to explore the world around her . At the first glimpse of Torvald and Nora's relationship, Nora is returning from a day of Christmas shopping. She is recognized by her husband's greetings with belittling nicknames which he uses in an inconspicuous and therefore unnoticed form of verbal oppression and a verbal interest in claiming her as his property "But if Helmer considers Nora his property, as he apparently does, Nora encourage to do so. To him she calls herself his little squirrel and his lark” (Dukore 121). These actions are not Nora's fault, it seems Nora doesn't fight her demeaning nicknames because she doesn't know any difference and it also benefits her ability to manipulate Torvald with... means of paper... in A Doll's House." ReadingsOn the House of a Doll. Hayley R. Mitchell. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven, 1999. Print.Heller, Otto. "Marriage in a Doll's House." Boston, MA:WadsworthCengage Learning, 2011. 799-851.Kelly, Katherine E. “Pandemics and Performance: Ibsen and the Explosion of Modernism.”South Central Review 25.1 (2008): 12-35 November 25, 2011. Rosenberg, Marvin and Joan Templeton. "Ibsen's Nora." PMLA104.1(1989): 28-40. JSTOR. Network. November 16. 2011.