In the part of the play we had just read i believe that the conflicts represent one big conflict that even to this day we all deal with. the fact that almost everyone in this part of the play has been living in denial from the start. In the beginning Nora seems innocent at first acting as if she hasn't done anything wrong which gives off the fact that she is completely guilty of something she has committed which has been proven later in the act. As stated on page 166 "the thing is he's afraid i shall spoil my teeth with them. But pooh- just this once! That's right isn't it, dr rank? here![she pops a macaroon into his mouth] and now you, kristina or two at the most. [ pacing about again] oh. I'm really terribly happy!" The macaroons represents how corrupt the society was in that time period.

in this time period females were only looked at as second class citizens. for a women like norato be doing this kind of work would be completely unacceptable and she would be looked at as a degenerate. she was able to cover up this act of doing work by hiding it with a facade, where she squanders with the money made by her husband torvald. Nora isn't the only one lying or at least living in deception, the character Krogstad is trying to rebuild his life because he is seen as disreputable but is still causing conflict with in the act. He blackmails her and plays a facade in which he has gradually improved but in all reality he is still the same person he was as he does this behavior to provoke Nora. As stated on page 177  "its all nonsense... nonsense, there's nothing in i! we shall have a lovely tree- ill do all the things you like torvald ill sing and dance. this displays her breaking down. the fact that she has been lying for this long shows that she is breaking down due to all this. it is soon that every one in the play who is living in denial will eventually confess to relieve them of the burden that it is to lie for a long period of time like Nora did.