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?
I feel like the two characters who really have a false sense of themselves are Greggers and Hjalmar. Greggers believes that he is a man who has a mission, I guess you could say, or a destiny as he calls it. But he does not understand that his actions are going to lead to Hedvig killing herself, which I don't believe were his intentions. He has also a misconception of how Hjalmar was going to react upon knowing the truth. He believed that it was going to make him have a "true marriage" with Gina but it ended up destroying their family, and ultimatly destroying Hjalmar. Hjalmar is living a lie. He embraces it without knowing it though. He truly believes he is a hard working man, although Gina and Hedvig are the ones who do his work for him. He also believes that he has a family of his own when in reality his child is biologically another mans. The people who recognize all these lies are the ones who are aware of the truth. Gina tries to enforce all of the facades in regards to Hjalmar.