im frankly and equally about anything serious. Throughout Nora's life she has needed a man to protect her and disclipline her as if she were a child. Before her marriage this was her father and for the past eight years, her husband. The influential power the men in her life have had over her is evident when Nora says, "When I lived at home with Papa, he told me all his opinions, so I had the same ones too; or if they were different I hid them...then I went from Papa's hands into yours...and so
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