Question

Read the excerpt from act 2 of A Doll's House.

Krogstad: I shall only preserve it—keep it in my possession. No one who is not concerned in the matter shall have the slightest hint of it. So that if the thought of it has driven you to any desperate resolution.

Nora: It has.

Krogstad: If you had it in your mind to run away from your home.

Nora: I had.

Krogstad: Or even something worse—

Nora: How could you know that?

Krogstad: Give up the idea.

Nora: How did you know I had thought of that?

Krogstad: Most of us think of that at first. I did, too—but I hadn't the courage.

Nora: [faintly] No more had I.

Krogstad: [in a tone of relief]. No, that's it, isn't it—you hadn't the courage either?

Nora: No, I haven't—I haven't.

Krogstad: Besides, it would have been a great piece of folly. Once the first storm at home is over—. I have a letter for your husband in my pocket.

Nora: Telling him everything?

Krogstad: In as lenient a manner as I possibly could.



What inference does the text best support?

Krogstad has written a deceptive letter.

Nora will follow Krogstad’s advice.

Krogstad thinks that Nora is foolish.

Nora is considering killing herself.

Answer 1

Answer: Nora is considering killing herself.

In this excerpt, we learn that Nora has been feeling extremely upset recently. She knows that her plot has been discovered and her future is in jeopardy. Krogstad asks her whether she has thought about running away from home. He also asks whether she has thought of something even worse. She admits that she has, but that she is not brave enough. The fact that neither one of them mention this "worse" thing indicates that Nora has been considering killing herself.

Answer 2

In the excerpt, it is inferred that D. Nora is considering killing herself.

After Krogstad discovers that Nora has committed fraud against him, she realizes he could use that information to blackmail her husband. In this way, he would not lose his job but he would get a higher position. So Nora thinks about suicide as the only way to escape, but Krogstad warns her he will write Torvald a letter telling everything anyways.