Helmer thinks that his wife Nora is simply a doll to him. In the first act of the play, A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, Helmer states: “My little songbird must never do this again. A songbird needs a clean beak to warble with” (1468). Helmer is basically direct in suggesting that Nora must always be honorable and honest with him. In today's society women are supposed to be honest with their husbands, but there husbands don't talk to their wives that way. Every time Nora wants to cheer up Helmer by taking out her dress. Nora makes this comment to Helmer: “You know, he will be rather attractive” (Ibsen 1470). When Nora talks about her dress, Helmer immediately becomes cheerful and focuses all his attention on her and the joy it brings him to think about her looks and delicious appearance. In today's society women draw a man's attention not only to what they wear, but also to how they present themselves both internally and externally, with more of what is on the inside rather than seen exclusively on the outside. Women continually change their hair and makeup, not only perhaps to attract the attention of others, but as an expression of who they are first of all as a person and