WILD DUCK #1

"Option 2: Examine how characters perceive themselves or others. Who has false conceptions of him/herself? Who has misconceptions of others? Who recognizes the facades created by other characters? Does the character embrace the facade, ignore it, or confront it?"Hedvig: She acts very mature and self-assured around her mother. However, when she is around her father, she acts just like a little five year old would. Hedvig embraces her facade in order to be daddy's little girl and get what she wants.
Gina: She is the mother of Hedvig, but Hjalmar is not the father, old Werle is. She never tells Hjalmar this. She acts like the perfect wife, mother, and housekeeper. Yet she has a devious lie underneath it all. She recognizes her own facade and embraces it while keeping Hjalmar ignorant of it. Old Mr. Werle knows about it, but keeps it to himself.
Old Mr. Werle: He percieves himself as being a wealthy man who can do no wrong, so he put the entire woodworking scandal on old Ekdal. Both of them embrace this facade and do nothing to help it.
Old Ekdal: He recognizes the facade put up by old Werle, but does nothing about it because old Werle is helping him out (in order to keep his mouth shut).