O Hedda!

Hedda Gabbler

O Hedda, what an interesting and amusing character she turned out to be through the course of the play. It was certainly apparent from her first introduction that she would be of particular amusement due to her snide remarks and overall disinterest with he husband and rudeness toward his Aunt. This play was a fantastic read that initially I was not interested in at all. However, from reading just the first few pages I found it to be engrossing. Trying to predict the story and what the eventual manipulations of Hedda would lead to was a labor that I am not generally accustomed too. I tend to predict where movies and novels will lead the reader with a high degree of accuracy however, this was a work in which Ibsen completely surprised the reader with the demise of the heroine (this reader at least)... Or vileness depending on how you look at her. Who would have thought because of her failed manipulations of Ejlert that she would opt for suicide. I also wonder if Ibsen meant for any sort of connection between her choice of the sister pistol to the one that ended Ejlerts life.