It’s important that you can write about Nora’s ‘performances’ to please Helmer. Helmer remarks that Nora is ‘talking just like a real big  ’ (Act 3, p. 87).

Ask yourself: What is the effect of all the nicknames Helmer employs?

Possible answer: Nora acts out the childlike roles he allots to her as if reluctant to be fully adult. Ironically, he says she is ‘like’ a human being.