Hialmar Ekdal lives with his
wife Gina and daughter Hedvig in a combined studio and apartment with a large
adjoining attic where they keep chickens and rabbits. Living with the family is
old Ekdal, a former lieutenant who was earlier imprisoned for a financial
offence for which Werle, a wholesaler, was actually responsible. Gina was
Werle's housekeeper earlier. At the beginning of the play his son, Gregers
Werle, has come home to attend a dinner given by his father. Gregers discovers
that Gina Ekdal was his father's mistress before she married Hialmar, and that
his father had brought the two of them together and helped them financially.
Gregers now considers it his duty to get Hialmar to see the truth behind his
marriage so that he and Gina can live together in a marriage based on truth.
Hialmar confronts Gina with her background and asks her whether he is Hedvig's
father. Gina replies that she does not know, and in distraction Hialmar rejects
Hedvig as his daughter. Meanwhile Gregers has convinced Hedvig that she can win
back her father's love by sacrificing the wild duck that lives in the attic and
to which she is deeply attached. But Hedvig shoots herself instead of the wild
duck, and the play ends with general despair at the death of the child.
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