Linde and Krogstad are the two characters who suffered the most during their lives. Mrs. Linde, Nora's widow and former friend, was looking for work. Krogstad, a lawyer, was about to be fired from his bank job by Torvald. He would be replaced by Mrs. Linde. As the play unfolds, it is revealed that Mrs. Linde and Torvald were lovers in the past. Krogstad, due to his past indiscretions, loses his job at Torvald's bank and Mrs. Linde replaces him. When Krogstad finds out, he gets angry, and rightly so. Losing his job to a woman would have been very degrading for a man, especially one who was raising his children alone. After a long discussion, and through the power of forgiveness, they manage to reunite and, we assume, turn their lives around. In A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen successfully writes about the shocking transformations of the play's characters. At the beginning of the play, each character behaves just as society would expect, based on the situation. In the end, each character transformed into someone completely unexpected; someone who goes against social norms in this regard