A Doll's House Torvald Helmer Quotes

HELMER: "How I am punished for having winked at what he did! I did it for your sake, and this is how you repay me." (3.236)

Ah, so Helmer's record isn't as spotless as he makes it out to be. He admits here that he ignored some of Nora's father's wrongdoing.

HELMER: "I must try and appease [Krogstad] some way or another. The matter must be hushed up at any cost." (3.242)

Isn't Torvald being hypocritical here? Isn't covering up Nora's indiscretion deceitful as well?

HELMER: "Bought, did you say? All these things? Has my little spendthrift been wasting money again?" (1.11)

Nora is constantly accused of wasting money when, in reality, she keeps barely anything for herself, all in an effort to pay back the loan that saved her husband's life.