Cute little Doll's House

I am discussing the first writing topic from the story “A Doll’s House.” The story was pretty long but I wanted to keep on to get what the point of the whole play was, then once I found out the point of it all, I kept reading because I wanted to know what the outcome of her situation would be. The main character in the story, Nora, seemed rather childish or immature to me at times. And as I continued reading the story, I came to realize that she was a little too materialistic and rather selfish. I first noticed she was a little too much into herself and not really one to take the time to listen to others when her friend Christine stopped in. She took the time to be polite and cordial, but she went on bragged about her life, children, and husband’s job, which really wasn’t the time to do it since her friend was in the state that she was in. She should have been more of a support which is why I think that she was acting selfishly. When it comes to her children, I think that she was acting selfishly also. All those questions that arose in her mind after the incident with her husband shows that she really wasn’t ready to be a wife or mother, so running out on them now really doesn’t help the situation. It is as the saying goes, “you made your bed now sleep in it” At the time she was only concerned about herself and fixing her own problems without really taking into consideration the lasting effect those choices would have on her children. Its not like she was in an un-fixable condition. She came to realization of her problems, but then that is the time where you do your best to fix it and not to repeat the same problems. As far as her walking out on her marriage is concerned, I’m not too convinced that it was a heroic thing. Sure Nora wasn’t the only one with the problems, her husband obviously had some problems too, and yes there marriage was hollow and pretty shallow too. But at least Helmer was willing to work things out, he wasn’t too quick on giving up on the whole thing. In dealing with the alternate ending to the story, from what I stated above I think its clear that I would think this ending to be a better one. Sacrifice seems to be such a belittling term these days, and I’m sure it was that way back then also. But I think that that if she were willing to sacrifice her own wants and desires, which from the story doesn’t seem like something she is used to doing, things may end up better in the long run for both her and her family. That is of course if she were willing to make it work. You can’t force a person to do a single thing, people will do what they want to do.