must forge her father s name because society treats her as a doll not as an adult Her secret makes her afraid The letter-box becomes a prison Nora sees she has no power in her own house She is trapped like a doll locked in a toy house Nora s Awakening and the Door Slam The truth comes in Act III Torvald reads Krogstad s letter and cries You have destroyed all my happiness He calls her unfit for children Nora realizes she is only a doll in his hands She says I must try and educate myself She leaves her husband and children She slams the door The sound breaks the doll s house The doll Ibsen refers to is Nora who awakens and walks out The doll is Nora Helmer She is first a doll-wife then a doll-prisoner and finally a free woman Ibsen shows how society reduces women to dolls but also how one woman finds the courage to leave the toy house