TASK – Copy and complete the following table using quotations from pages 13
– 24, the conversation between Mrs Linde and Nora.
What do we have to understand about the culture and values at the time, in order
to fully understand the meaning of this conversation?
Cultural Differences
Evidence from text
In the late nineteenth century it was very
difficult for a woman without a husband or
father to maintain herself financially.
“Poor thing, how you must have suffered. And
he left you with nothing?” (page 14)