TRIFLES and A DOLL

Minnie Wright and Nora Helmer are women living very different lifestyles . One is living the arduous life of a farmer 's wife while the other is enjoying the fruits of her husband 's white-collar occupation One has had her youthful beauty and joy taken from her while the other is still young and beautiful . One woman lives in a typical rural area while the other enjoys a more urbanized lifestyle . Still , these women share something . Both are underestimated by their husbands and each take drastic actions to secure for themselves some type of

independence and autonomy

In the play entitled A Doll 's House , we are shown of what a picture perfect wife is . Her husband adores her so much , she plans for the whole family how their holidays are spent , and she hired household help , has a nanny , is good friends with her husband 's friends , plays with her children , and worked hard alongside her husband during the times that they did not have much money to spend . Although she is not as rich as she would have wanted , she was able to go travel to a different country after getting married and she gets to learn a social dance , which is of that time a very good skill when you are a young and beautiful housewife . The facade of her life is so much like a doll 's house , albeit what the people do not know is what happened so that she and her husband have lived as well as they are living right now

Minnie Wright , on the other hand , has been living dreadfully in seclusion . She used to sing for a choir when she was younger and has a beautiful voice , but when she got married to John Wright , her whole world revolved around the house . She did not join women 's groups , did not interact much with the other women in town , in fact she was pretty much consumed in all the household and farm work , that she barely left their house . Her only joy was believed to be a cheap canary , which was later discovered to be dead by the women who were with their husbands during the investigation

Both Minnie and Nora , though living different lives , were bonded by the same grief . Nora did everything in her power to keep a public image that all is well , and she has kept a secret from her husband . She borrowed a huge sum of money to pay off for their trip to Italy and has been paying this ever since . Unfortunately , her husband found out threw a raging fit at her only in the end he wanted her back . But Nora made up her mind and refused to continue living in a doll 's house . Minnie , in contrast was so fed up with her life that when her husband wrung the neck of her pet canary that she loved dearly , she tied a knot around his neck and killed him

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