ship with society. He is a smug bank manager, a perfect symbol of their society. With his job comes many responsibilities. He often treats his wife as if she is one of these responsibilities. Torvald is very authoritative and male dominated. He puts his appearance (both social and physical) ahead of his wife that he supposedly loves. He is not a strong supporter of his family; instead he is a mean and cowardly man. This is a man that is worried about his reputation, and cares little about his wife's feelings. He waits until after he discovers that his social status will suffer no harm before revealing his true feelings. These feelings put both his social and physical appearance ahead of Nora, the wife who he says he loves. Torvald is a typical husband in his society. He denied Nora the right to think and act the way she wished. He required her to act like an imbecile and insisted upon the rightness of his view in all matters. An obvious example of his physical control over her would be his re-teaching of the
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