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What does the image of the macaroons come to symbolize in this excerpt from act 1 of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House?


HELMER (Wagging his finger at her): Hasn't Miss Sweet Tooth been breaking rules in town today?


NORA: No; what makes you think that?


HELMER: Hasn't she paid a visit to the confectioner's?


NORA: No, I assure you, Torvald—


HELMER: Not been nibbling sweets?


NORA: No, certainly not.


HELMER: Not even taken a bite at a macaroon or two?


NORA: No, Torvald, I assure you really—


HELMER: There, there, of course I was only joking.


NORA (Going to the table on the right): I should not think of going against your wishes.


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Answer:

The image of the macaroons come to symbolize deceit in the above excerpt from Act 1 of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House.

Explanation:

Torvald has restricted Nora from eating any macaroon. Nora, on the other hand, had eaten some of them, thereby disobeying her husband. Nora claims to her husband that she had never disobeyed him but by eating the macaroons she had disobeyed him.