Problem
• What positive gains does Nora make in the course of the action?
• What must she learn in order to perform her final act?
• Is that act a triumph, or a failure, or some of both? Explain. [You may find it relevant to know that for the play's first performance in Berlin, Ibsen was pressured into creating a conventionally "happy ending"-wherein Torvald persuades Nora not to leave him for the sake of the children, and so she sacrifices herself to their need for a mother.]