Due to her character, she did not see the constraint that Torvald had placed on her and did not see what she was missing. As the play progresses, Nora is able to think more maturely and realize the confined state she has been in for so long. Critics saw his childish character in a different light. Joan Templeton said: “She was exposed as an irrational and frivolous narcissist; an abnormal woman” (Templeton 29). Nora's childish nature was seen as the reason she left her behind, rather than the reason she ignored her confinement. Other critics claim that Nora was not a child because she was "a woman who worked hard for years and was content with her husband and children" (Dukore).