In A Doll House, Nora fits the role of an 1800’s housewife. In the 1800’s women have no jobs, source of income, follow orders from men, and don’t take direct care of their children. The housewives had a maid/nurse to tend to the needs of the children. In the book, on page 1108, the children come back inside with Anne-Marie after they were outside playing in the snow. The children begin to tell Nora all the fun they had outside. This was typical for a woman to do, to let her children be raised by someone else, or have someone else to all the hard parts of raising a child. House wives in the 1800’s typically tended to the house to make it look pretty and nice. In the play, Nora upholds that stereotype by tending to the family Christmas tree (1114-1116).
