“A Doll's House” gives the reader a first-hand view of how gender roles influenced the characters' actions and interactions throughout the play. The show helps portray the different struggles women faced during the 19th century with gender roles and how the roles affected their relationships with men and society. It also helps show the luxury of being a male during this time and how their higher social status compared to women affected their relationships with women and others during this time. Torvald Helmer begins the story with a new job as a bank manager. He has a wife Nora who does not have a job in the workforce as that was the man's role. Torvald also calls Nora nicknames such as "my sweet lark" and "my squirrel". These nicknames may seem harmless and cute, but in reality the names show how little you think of her and how he is the one exploiting the power. in the relationship When Torvald says "my little squirrel" he is suggesting that he actually owns Nora and that she is second rate to him, since she is seen as small and like a squirrel which are usually scared and non-threatening creatures. Torvald sees women as childish and helpless creatures, detached from reality and who are responsible for taking care of household chores and children while they remain at home. Gender roles are also seen in the rules that Torvald must follow for Nora the only one in the family who works and provides for his family who needs to survive in their lifestyle. For this reason, Nora always has to go and ask Torvald for money hoping that he will accept her by also using his income and his name because when a woman married, all her assets were considered... at the center of the paper... needs financial or simply at home, men were at an advantage. “A Doll’s House,” by Henrik Ibsen, portrays the gender roles of nineteenth-century women and men in society. Torvald's perception of his wife, of how she is a helpless creature, shows the general role played by women. Women were responsible for the purity of the world through their influence in the home and through the education of children. They had to beg and ask for permission to do certain activities and essential things. The men were the ones in the family who worked and provided for the well-being of his family. Due to the family's economic dependence on the husband, he had control over all members of his family. This demonstrated the amount of progress that will need to be made in the future to allow women to start receiving some of the many rights they deserve, that men had and so often took for granted..