A Wife and Child Confusion In today's society, Americans typically play roles specific to different labels of groups or people in their society. Roles are established for all different types of people, from mothers to doctors to lawyers to the homeless. But generally, the role between mother and child is completely different. Although mothers may sometimes play and act like their children to get along better with them, the roles of mother and child are usually completely different. In Henrik Ibsen's play, A Doll's House, Torvald, the father and husband of the house, treats his wife Nora as one of their children. Torvald seems to confuse the role of wife/mother and that of son. The way he treats Nora seems like he wants to tell her what to do, wear, and eat, just like you would a child. He yells at her to spend money and other mean things too. Usually, in any society, it is not difficult to distinguish between an adult and a child. But in A Doll's House, Torvald seems to have difficulty seeing his wife as a woman and not as a child. A woman should be treated as herself, just like every other American has the opportunity to do. Children all over the world have one thing, if nothing else, in common. This is that everyone has a sweet tooth. Children and sweets are like rain and puddles, one cannot ignore the other. A sweet tooth is incurable by everything, except of course those sweet things. Sweets are the greatest cure for the sweet tooth. And the craving for sweets can arise at any time, sometimes right before dinner. Typically, kids who indulge their sweet tooth before dinner end up in trouble with mom or dad. In Ibsen's play, Nora appears to be a child. She eats macaroons when she comes home from shopping and when her husband questions her about it, she replies: "l" (Ibsen). Nora is questioned again and again denies the acquisitions. It seems that here she is treated like a child by her husband, who asks her if she eats candy. She is a grown woman and should be able to eat candy if and when she wants. She's old enough to know what's right and what's wrong, especially knowing she's raising three kids.