Nora was Helmer's wife and mother of 3 children. They lived in a house where their nurse Anne-Marie took care of the children and Helene, their housekeeper, took care of the housework. Nora was a stay-at-home mother and occasionally took small jobs to make ends meet. Nora has lived her entire life like a puppet. His life has always been controlled by someone else; first by her father and then by her husband Helmer. “His whole life is a construct of social norms and expectations of others” (Wiseman). “Nora's father imposed his beliefs on her and she respected them so as not to upset him; he would bury his personal belief under Dad's. According to Nora, Torvald was guilty of the same things” (Wiseman). Nora has always lived her life according to someone else's beliefs. She didn't know how to live life any other way because that's how she was raised. She felt trapped in the life she was living because she knew no other way to live other than her current lifestyle. Because Nora had been controlled her whole life, she seemed childish and unfamiliar with the world outside the home. At the end of the story Helmer decides to show his true nature once his future is threatened. This made Nora realize that she does not love her husband nor does he love her, and she decides that this is not the life she wants to live. “Helmer: You talk like a child. You know nothing about the world you live in