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Read the passage.

The play A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen, is set in the Victorian era. The two main characters are Torvald Helmer, a bank manager, and his pretty, devoted wife, Nora. Torvald has many pet names for his wife, such as, “featherhead,” “spendthrift,” “little squirrel,” “doll-child,” and “frightened singing-bird.”

Through the character of Torvald Helmer, what is the writer suggesting Victorian men thought of their wives