Yet, despite her own trials she still believes marriage must be based in honesty, even an ugly honesty. "But now a whole day's gone by and I've witnessed things in this house that I could hardly believe. Helmer must know the whole story. This wretched secret must be brought into the open so that there's complete understanding between them. That's be impossible while there's so much concealment and subterfuge," she says in Act 3. There is a certain irony to this assertion, however, given that she entered into a marriage herself, with only intentions of making money and obtaining security in the process and that she is marrying the unethical Krogstad, a man who openly blackmailed Nora, although she says, "Nils, when you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it a second time," also in Act 3. Question

Dr. Rank would be critical of Nora's actions, but not from...

Because Dr. Rank was denied a normal life because of his father's liberal lifestyle, he might worry about the effects of this upon Nora's children, as well as upon their father's lives, should Nora's unethical behavior be revealed.
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Nora's actions initially are reckless, yet possessed of a kind of romantic truth -- given the health care system of our own nation, and the levels to which individuals drive themselves to work, work, work, her decision to borrow money on credit seems, if not reasonable, then less blameworthy than it might appear at first glance. But her desire for her husband to sacrifice his reputation for her shows a fundamentally loose grip upon reality and upon the truth of her life.