One of the changes to the story was to have Nora commit suicide. Towards the end of Act III, Nora imagines her death when Torvald went to read the letter expressing what Nora did. Suicide is sometimes seen as the ultimate weakness, or being too strong for too long. If this had been integrated into the story, the meaning and impact would have been much less. Nora would have been seen as taking the easy way out and Torvald would have garnered sympathy as the victim. Ibsen published an alternate ending to A Doll's House that gave audiences insight into how controlling Torvald was. Instead of Nora abandoning her husband and children, Torvald took Nora back to the children's room to look at them one last time. Nora ends up breaking down in tears on the threshold of their room and stays with Torvald. This ending gives Torvald triumph over Nora because he knew that if he used the children to make her feel guilty for even considering leaving, she would stay. These two changes to the plot are not as influential as the original ending. If this ending had been applied by Ibsen, the story would not have been about women's rights, but simply a story for entertainment purposes (Braddock,