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Key Quotes Analysis - Act Two

Directions: Read each quote below and identify its speaker and the character(s) who
relate to it. Then, circle the theme(s) listed in the Themes Key that apply to each quote.
Some quotes may lack a direct speaker (such as if the quote is an unnamed narrator) or
have no related characters. In those cases it is fine to leave the “Speaker” or “Related
character(s)” fields blank.

Themes Key
1 Love and Marriage
2 Gender
3 Money and Work
4 Deceit
5 Individual vs. Society

When a poor girl’s been in trouble she must make the Speakers:
best of things.
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You see Torvald is so terribly in love with me that he Speakers:

says he wants me all to himself. When we first married,
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it even used to make him sort of jealous if I only as
much as mentioned any of my old friends back home. So
of course I stopped doing it. Related Themes:
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A man’s better at coping with these things than a Speakers:

woman…
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If it ever got around that the new manager had been Speakers:
talked over by his wife… As long as the little woman
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gets her own stubborn way…! Do you want me to make

myself a laughing stock in the office? Give people the
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idea that I am susceptible to any kind of outside
pressure? You can imagine how soon I’d feel the 1 2 3 4 5
consequences of that!

Now Dr. Rank, cheer up. You’ll see tomorrow how nicely I Speakers:
can dance. And you can pretend I’m doing it just for you
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—and for Torvald as well, of course.

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I want to get on my feet again, Mrs. Helmer; I want to Speakers:

get to the top… For the last eighteen months I’ve gone
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straight; all that time it’s been hard going; I was content
to work my way up, step by step. Now I’m being kicked
out, and I won’t stand for being taken back again as an Related Themes:
act of charity. I’m going to get to the top, I tell you… It’ll
be Nils Krogstad, not Torvald Helmer, who’ll be running 1 2 3 4 5
the bank.

You can’t frighten me! A precious little pampered thing Speakers:

like you…
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Tell me what to do, keep me right—as you always do. Speakers:

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But my dear darling Nora, you are dancing as though Speakers:

your life depended on it.
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