He spends a lot of time in his study and is known to have only one friend: Dr. Rank. He seems rigid and hardly interacts with his children. Although he is his family's financial guardian, he considers himself their personal guardian. He is in love with his wife even though he constantly scolds her and talks to her like a child, in a humiliating tone, but she doesn't seem to care. He constantly reminds her that she is her father's daughter by saying, “You're a little weirdo. Just like your father was. You're never short of money to scare; but the moment you have it, it slips through your fingers; you never know what you've done with it. Well, one takes you as you are. It's in your blood…” (1.802) In the play he has just gotten a new job as a bank manager and is constantly berating his wife. He harbors a deep secret that his wife may have inherited his womanizing ways from her father. He is afraid that she may have contracted the moral disease from her father. However, according to Paul Rosefeldt, “Torvald Hemler is another example of a failed father. It has little to do with his children. …claims the place is only suitable for a mother. When Nora's crime is revealed, he gives in to Krogstad's demands, making him even more of a hypocrite than Krogstad. He becomes a father of lies and disguises, polluting his own children” (85 and when struck