Because of her character, she failed to see the constraint Torvald had placed on her and failed to see what she was missing. As the show progresses, Nora is able to think more maturely and realize the state of confinement she has been in for so long. Critics saw his childish character in a different light. Joan Templeton said: “she has been exposed as an irrational and frivolous narcissist; an abnormal woman” (Templeton 29). Nora's childish nature was seen as the reason he left her behind, instead of the reason she was unaware of her confinement. Other critics argue that Nora was not childish because she was “a woman who works hard for years and just goes without a husband and children” (Dukore