This paper looks at how lack of trust and honesty leads Nora and Torvald Helmer down a long path to destruction. It explains
that the play gives a picture of a marriage
relationship that comes apart when a crisis reveals the lack of trust and the resulting
deception that was present. Nora and Torvald Helmer have been married for eight years, but have filled those years playing the role of what society would have said was a happily married couple. It shows how a lack of trust and honesty has left them as strangers without a firm relationship to hold them together.