A Doll's House

Characters:

Nora Helmer: wife of Torvald, mother of three, living out the ideal of the 19th century wife, but leaves her family at the end of the play.

Torvald Helmer: Nora's husband, a newly promoted bank manager, suffocates but professes to be enamoured of his wife.

Dr. Rank: A rich family friend, who is secretly in love with Nora. He is terminally ill, and it is implied that his "tuberculosis of the spine" originates from a venereal disease contracted by his father.

Christine Linde: Nora's old school friend, widowed, seeking employment (named Kristine in the original Norwegian text). She was in a relationship with Krogstad prior to the play's setting.

Nils Krogstad: Employee at Torvald's bank, single father, pushed to desperation. A supposed scoundrel, he is revealed to be a long-lost lover of Kristine.

The Children of Nora and Torvald: Ivar, Bobby and Emmy.

Anne Marie: Nora's former nanny, who now cares for the children.

Helene: The Helmers' maid.