When Torvald refuses to take the blame for Nora's crimes, she realizes that "her husband is not the ideal hero she imagined, she decides to disguise the his egotism with his selfishness" (Scott) and removes her façade of a happy and defenseless wife. Nora confronts Torvald about his true feelings and the lack of communication in their marriage. Nora explains to him: “We've been married for eight years now. Doesn't it occur to you that this is the first time the two of us, you and I, husband and wife, have had a serious conversation?" (III.140). The accusations Torvald hears from Nora shock him since this is the first time that she expresses her disappointment in their marriage. Nora never confides her innermost thoughts and feelings to her husband, choosing to share them with Doctor Rank who, “more than anyone else” (III.85), has his full share. trust. Nora in eight years of marriage has not attempted to connect with her husband on a personal level. Scott notes in his review of the play: “there [are] no previous signs of his conversion, but he has exchanged playfulness for preaching. She, a loving and affectionate woman, forgets the eight years of happy married life, forgets the bird's nest, forgets her duty, her own instinct as a mother, forgets the three innocent children sleeping in the next room, forgets her responsibilities and does a thing which one of the lower animals would not do. A cat or