You do not understand the conditions of the world in which you live. (Ibsen 1390). Torvald tries to make her second guess her decision by making her think that she is not smart enough to know what she is doing and that she cannot take care of herself. He also uses his wifely duties as a way to guilt her into staying. “Are they not your sacred duties to your husband and children? (Ibsen 1390). At the time, society's view of women was narrow: “the traditional view of motherhood was that mothers stayed at home. "They generally did not pursue careers but devoted their lives to running their homes and raising their children" (McCaffrey), in the sense that society believed that women's sole purpose was to stay at home, to be mother and take care of the house, while the men went out and