However, the way that Torvald speaks to Nora shows that he is using her, just like how Torvald always refers to his wife as a skylark, and in the third act when he says, "playtime shall be over and lessons begin-. It would be thought that by this, Torvald would be referring to the children, Nora even asks whose lessons he is referring to, and it is quite shocking when he says hers and the children's. This shows how much he considers her as a child, just like how he always calls her a "skylark- symbolizes the way that Torvald always teaches his wife as a child.
We discover a breakthrough in Nora's character, who has an epiphany towards the end of the play. We know that at the time that Nora's father was dying, Torvald was seriously ill. This was due to overwork, and to save his life, he needed rest. So Nora took him away on a trip to Italy, which she told Torvald her father had help pay for, as they did not have the money. We learn in fact, that the money was not from her father, and he had had no idea of what was going on, he was dying at the time, and Nora had in fact borrowed the money from Krogstad. In order to borrow this money, Nora had to get her father to sign the bond drafted by Krogstad. But she made a mistake, in giving away that she had forged her father's signature, by dating the document the second of October, three days after her father's death. She did not tell Torvald that she borrowed the money; she knew how much he did not approve of her borrowing the money. Krogstad sees the mistakes and confronts Nora, forcing her to reveal the truth, and threatening to reveal her secret to Torvald if she does not try to get Torvald to give Krogstad his job back, who had been dismissed as a result of forgery himself. It is through all this lying and playing that Nora sees that she no longer belongs in this household, and it is at this time that Nora has her epiphany.
