The answer is:
Krogstad tries to blackmail Nora into getting Helmer to keep him at the bank by exposing her forgery.
In "A Doll's House," by Henrik Ibsen, Krogstad has lent money to Nora illegally and secretly to pay for her husband's health treatment in Italy. As a consequence, when Torvald wishes to dismiss Krogstad from his job at the bank, the latter demands to Nora that she persuades her husband so that he can keep his job, and threatens to write a letter to Torvald revealing his wife's fraud.
Lady Macbeth said King Duncan resembled her father too much and therefore she couldn’t kill him herself.
Answer: We weren't quite sure what it all meant, except that for now, my sister Rachel and I were putting on our finest dresses and the shoes Mother had polished twice.
Explanation:
With this quote from the passage, it shows that they don't really know what is happening around them, things are happening and they are kind of just, "going with the flow" in a sense. They don't understand why they are getting all dressed up, they don't even know what the celebration was about.
When people lie, it causes a mistrust between friends.
