Ensure you can discuss the play’s evocation of a world outside the apartment. Mrs Linde tells Nora, ‘I arrived by the  ’ (Act 1, p. 29).

Ask yourself: How does the text convey a wider world?

Possible answer: The allusions to Mrs Linde’s travels and Nora’s own foreign trip remind Nora, and us, that she can move on. They prepare for her exit.