Wild Duck #3

Consider which characters are at fault for the events that are unfolding and why? Is there a character without blame?  Why or why not? Is there a character who should carry more of the blame?  Do any of the characters take responsibility?

I feel that Gregers is the character at blame because he is the one that was digging up all the evidence of the affair between Gina and Werle. Werle did not understand why Werle's cared so much about the Ekdal family and wanted to discover the true meaning of the families connections.

The one character that no one really blames for the situation is Gina. Gina is never directly blamed for what was going on, the only thing that happened was Hjalmar got very upset but during that entire time he never directly blames her. He never came out and blamed her. This leaves us to believe that she wasn't really blamed for the situation that she was put in.

Werle should have taken more of the blame. No one ever faces him in the story and blames him for all the situations he had created. When Gregers starts to discover everything between the two families he never once discusses it with his father. This is why he was never blamed and in the end he was the one that created all the different situations.

I feel that Hjalmar takes most of the responsibility that his family started to fall apart. But there was nothing he could have done to prevent what had already happened. He feels that he was placed in a home that was funded by a man that was the father of his child and he did not know this so he feels that he was not smart enough to figure this put himself. Gregers would be the only one that was able to unravel the mystery and Hjalmar felt he should have been the one that could have figured it out on his own.