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Mrs. Linde's Fear Of Failure
To lose the success you once had causes pain. Athletes, scholar, and a wife experience fear of failure everyday of their lives. Nora showed the fear of failure when she took a loan out to save her husband or when she told Mrs. Linde about it. Torvald also failed in this story by receiving a loan that he did not wish to have. The final failure in the story, Mrs. Linde and her decisions that changed her life. The fear of failure controls a person's choices for things they do. Nora took the loan out to save Torvald's life and then kept it a secret. She didn’t want Torvald to know about the loan until it got payed back in full. She never meant to hurt Torvald but the hurt and anger still coursed through him. She failed Torvald and everything he stood for by betraying him and getting the money. The loan saved his life but he never wanted to feel the way he did and she pushed him to have those feelings. …show more content…
His reputation caused him so much pain. He have died and he lived with the money. Nora ruined his reputation by taking out the loan, which in turn caused him to fail in his own eyes. He felt like he lost his freedom to the person that loaned the money. The control for his own life never left his own mind but the loan caused so much pain. He loved Nora but not on the level that she thought she loved him. The fear of losing his freedom and control made him think that he hated or disloved her. His failure in his mind controlled him and the whole world knew about

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