Hedvig will enter the garret to kill the duck but end by killing herself in a chaste and bloodless suicide. She dies for her father’s love.

Who is Hedvig in the wild duck?

Hedvig Ekdal The Ekdals’ fourteen-year-old daughter. She is the play’s most pathetic figure: its innocent and victimized child. She is of uncertain parentage, belonging either to Hialmar or Werle and potentially passed from the former to the latter in a marriage designed to circumvent public scandal.

What happens at the end of the wild duck?

The play ends with Relling and Gregers arguing again. Gregers insists that Hedvig did not die in vain, because her suicide unleashed a greatness within Hjalmar. Relling sneers at the notion, and insists that Hjalmar will be a drunk within a year.