The show questions the many ways in which husbands see and treat their wives, responds to male attitudes of women and the way these factors shaped relationships in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Torvald wants to make his wife as comfortable as possible. However, in return he wishes for his wife to become his little “little lark, your doll, whom you would hereafter treat with double kind care, for she was so frail and frail” (Ibsen 78). “A Doll's House” revolves around two individuals who live together as husband and wife: Trervold and Nora, but also focuses on family life, work and social expectations. Because of these expectations Nora had to return the borrowed money, secretly for a long time,” even though the money was supposed to be spent on improving her health. Those were times when it was ethically wrong for a wife to borrow without her husband's consent." Nora, on the other hand, wants to be valued, not for her obedience, but for what she has done to improve the well-being of the family.