f "throwing money around" (Ibsen 601). Because he is kept in the dark from Nora's secret that she uses some of the money to make payments on the loan she took out, Torvald mistakenly characterizes Nora with prodigality and compares her to a "spendthrift" that "use up a frightful amount of money" (Ibsen 602). To him, all the money he gives Nora simply disappears i
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