Throughout the play, the relationships between all of the characters can be seen as manipulative, deceptive, or simply false. Nora uses Torvald for money by keeping little secrets from him like eating macaroons behind his back, Torvald uses Nora for hook-up pleasure, and Christine uses Nora to get a job at Torvald's bank which causes Krogstad to lose his job. This leads to the main conflict of the story, which revolves around Nora's forgery of the loan document she gave to Krogstad. This is a crime in the legal and moral sense; being legal that Nora had committed a forgery, and being moral that she had kept it secret from Torvald. Since Krogstad has lost his job, he threatens to expose Nora's secret. This conflict causes a chain reaction of manipulation as Nora attempts to do everything in her power to stop Krogstad from exposing her. Knowing Krogstad's history with Christine, Nora uses it to convince Krogstad to give up his decision. The cycle of lies, deception, and manipulation is symbolic of that of a dollhouse because, even though everything in the Helmer household and the relationships between the characters seemed to be perfect at the beginning of the play, everything is so.