In class discussion, people,especially women, always talk about how Torvald never cared for Nora and that she was only an object in his game of life. While this is true to some extent, being an obvious main point of her distress, I believe our own point of view from the gender roles hae biased us in such situations. In the time that this was set, the wife staying home and taking care of the children and doing whatever it took to please her husband was fairly common and in fact the normal occurence. If it were any other way she would be an anomaly and ostracized, demonstrated by Ms. Linde's situation. I don't believe it was Torvald being especially hard on her or him not loving her enough to let her do whatever she wanted, it's because not only was it the accepted set up for a household to function in, but there was a real force in people associating his home life with business responsibilities which needed to work in syncopation if the other was to work out. Also, Nora made a strong point to keep anything that would indicate a problem a secret from him, so he had no signal that would initiate a change from him. It was her mistake in not confiding in her husband, as perhaps he had a different solution that could have worked better for all of them, rather then pushing all the blame on him and having him deal with all the consequences instead of the one who wronged in the first place. Froms those points, I believe it was her who didn't love him, as she never thought to what his life was like always trying to fix her mistakes.
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