Foreshadowing refers to clues that point to events that will happen later. Do you find any hints in this act that Nora might change the way she responds to her husband? Explain.

Torvald's machinations about who should get the banking jobs, complicated by Krogstad’s threat to reveal the secret and by Torvald’s denunciation of Krogstad, are just too much for Nora to manage. We know there is going to be trouble later on. Nora’s secret is bound to come out. Ibsen has foreshadowed an ironic inevitability.