Read the passage from A Doll's House.
Which statement best reflects the central idea
Nora: Well, then have found other
ways of earning
explored in the passages?
money. Last winter I was lucky enough to get a lot of
copying to do; so I locked myself up and sat writing
Social norms deprived women of privacy and
every evening until quite late at night. Many a time I
opportunities for independence.
was desperately tired; but all the same it was a
Women were permitted to pursue their goals only i
tremendous pleasure to sit there working and earning
they did so in public.
money. It was like being a man.
• Financial wealth was essential for women to secure
Read the passage from A Room of One's Own.
privacy for themselves.
But for women, I thought, looking at
the empty
• Women produced better work when they were
shelves, these difficulties were infinitely more
allowed to seclude themselves.
formidable. In the first
place, to have a room of her
own, let alone a quiet room or a sound-proof room,
was out of the question, unless her parents were
exceptionally rich or very noble, even up to the
beginning of the nineteenth century. Since her pin
money, which depended on the goodwill of her father.