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That's my point, though - I disagree with the intent of the play. To say that someone is first and foremost an individual and not a wife and mother is ludicrous, just as much as it's ludicrous for a man to forsake his title as husband and father simply because he's not "happy." I guess what I'm trying to say is that it seems that society places this mythical permanent "happiness" above honor and family, and I just don't agree with that at all. If I have children, I have an obligation to be their father as best as I can, even if that infringes on my own right to pursue "happiness." If being a good father means I have to take a job that I'm less than pleased with instead of moving to New York to pursue my dreams as a Broadway actor, then so be it. These are the consequences you must live with as a human - Nora *chose* to get married, Nora *chose* to have cihldren. No one was holding a gun to her head. And even should that be the case, where she was forced to marry (as was still happening back then), I would still see her as being obligated to make the best of the situation she was forced into, instead of just running from it.
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Doing my best not to end up like Kathleen Chang.
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