Breaking into Pieces (1)

While reading A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, I noticed a small component that I think may connect or even foreshadow the ending of the play.  I recognized that as Nora was showing her husband, Torvald, all the gifts that she had bought to give away for Christmas, she came across the gift she was planning on giving her daughter, Emmy.  She purchased a doll accompanied with a dolly’s bedstead.  Nora described them as “very plain, but anyways she will soon break them in pieces.”  This leads me to infer that perhaps Ibsen was foreshadowing what may be happening soon in the plot (Ibsen 7).  I believe that the Nora and the Helmer children may be an allusion to the people of the doll house, and that Torvald may be the person controlling them.  I believe this because of Torvold’s character traits that describe his constant urge to be in control (Ibsen 7).  I believe that those very traits are going to cause their happy utopia like family to “break them in pieces .”