Act 2

Could you believe how much of jerk Krogstad is? He is black mailing Nora even though he was put in the same situation. Krogstad says that he wants to prove himself to be a good person in society, yet he is not acting like a good person. If he really wants to go up "the ladder" then why doesn't he give Nora a break. Krogstad said, "I want to get into the Bank again, in a higher position. Your husband must make a place for me—" A good person does not take advantage of a situation just to look better in front of society. He does not mind making every one's life excruciating just to improve his own life. I believe that Krogstad deserves the image he has in society. He is most defiantly not above reproach. He did not have a good reason to comet a crime. Nora did it to save her husband. 

Krogstad wants to tell Nora's husband about the forged signature even though he knows it will ruin an entire household. I can't understand how some one who wants to be a better person could think the way Krogstad does. If he ruins Nora's life then people will find out and then he will be looked down upon even more. He will have put Nora in an even more intolerable situation. Everyone will remember him as the cold hearted person who stabbed his friend in the back. At that point he will have no chance to gain that respect again. Compare Nora and Krogstad's situation, who had the better reason?