Read the excerpt from act 3 of A Doll’s House. Helmer [walking up and down]: He had so grown into our lives. I can't think of him as having gone out of them. He, with his sufferings and his loneliness, was like a cloudy background to our sunlit happiness. Well, perhaps it is best so. For him, anyway. [Standing still.] And perhaps for us too, Nora. We two are thrown quite upon each other now. [Puts his arms round her.] My darling wife, I don't feel as if I could hold you tight enough. Do you know, Nora, I have often wished that you might be threatened by some great danger, so that I might risk my life's blood, and everything, for your sake. What evidence from the passage best supports the theme that society placed expectations on men and women based on gender?

“I can't think of him as having gone out of them. He, with his sufferings and his loneliness, was like a cloudy background to our sunlit happiness.”
“And perhaps for us too, Nora. We two are thrown quite upon each other now.”
“My darling wife, I don't feel as if I could hold you tight enough.”
“I have often wished that you might be threatened by some great danger, so that I might risk my life's blood, and everything, for your sake.”