A Doll's House

List of characters

Adeleide Johannessen in character as Nora, from a cigarette card of c. 1880 – c. 1882
  • Nora Helmer – wife of Torvald, mother of three, is living out the ideal of the 19th-century wife.
  • Torvald Helmer – Nora's husband, a newly promoted bank manager, professes to be enamored of his wife but their marriage stifles her.
  • Dr. Rank – a rich family friend (named "Peter Rank" in Michael Meyer's translation). He is terminally ill, and it is implied that his "tuberculosis of the spine" originates from a venereal disease contracted by his father.
  • Kristine Linde (sometimes spelled Christine in English translations) – Nora's old school friend, widowed, is seeking employment. She was in a relationship with Krogstad prior to the play's setting.
  • Nils Krogstad – an employee at Torvald's bank, a single father, he is pushed to desperation. A supposed scoundrel, he is revealed to be a long-lost lover of Kristine.
  • The Children – Nora and Torvald's children: Ivar, Bobby, and Emmy (in order of age).
  • Anne Marie – Nora's former nanny, who gave up her own daughter to "strangers" when she became, as she says, the only mother Nora knew. She now cares for Nora's children.[8]
  • Helene – the Helmers' maid.
  • The Porter – delivers a Christmas tree to the Helmer household at the beginning of the play.

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