Essay on A Doll's House: Money MattersHenrik Ibsen was born in 1828 to a wealthy family, however, when he was only eight years old his family went bankrupt and lost their status in society. Ibsen knew how the issuance of money could destroy a person's reputation in the blink of an eye. Perhaps this is how he makes the characters in his play, A Doll's House, so believable. Nora and Mrs. Linde, the two female protagonists of the play, had problems with money and forgery that ruined their lives. Nora forged her dead father's signature to get a loan. The play revolves around her struggle with the fear of being discovered. Both women's values ​​change as the story progresses. At first, it seems that Nora enjoys money and the status that comes with it. Mrs. Linde values ​​her own happiness, and Nora ultimately realizes that the only way she can live with what she has done is to do the same. From the beginning of the show, we see that Nora's entire attention is on money. “Wouldn't it be nice to have a lot of money and not have a care in the world” (703), Nora asks Mrs. Linde. Almost every conversation he has in the show is related to money in one way or another. When Torvald, her husband, asks her what she wants for Christmas, she replies: “You could give me some money, Torvald. . . . Then I could hang the notes on the Christmas tree in nice sparkly paper. Wouldn't that be fun” (699)? Her carefree way of handling money exasperates her husband. He wants to make her happy, but he can't give her what she doesn't have. At first he doesn't know about the loan and, to him and the audience, it seems like she's just throwing her money away helplessly. Linde, on the other hand, knows what it means to not have money to spend. He appreciates money, but for a completely different purpose. She looks at it for what it's worth and how it can help her survive. All his life he had to work hard for everything he wanted or needed. “Well, anyway,” he responded to Nora's remark about having a lot of money, “it would be nice enough to have enough for necessities” (703). To survive, she “had to make a living from a small shop, a little teaching, and whatever else [she] could find” (704).