Hedda was the main character in the story done by Ibsen. Hedda Gabler struggles in this story to find happiness by making the people around her miserable. She acted based on what she wanted in life, which was to be with Eilert. Her final decision is based on the love between Eilert and Mrs. Elvsted, and the death of Eilert. In the end of the play, Hedda decides to kill herself because Eilert dies of …showed first 75 words of 542 total…

…showed last 75 words of 542 total…went to see what happened. Hedda committed suicide by shooting herself in the head. Hedda killed herself because she realized that she was about to get caught and be in a scandal, and the fact that Eilert was killed by some women who he thought took his book mad her feel guilty. Hedda's life was so destroyed that death was the only solution to her problems. She couldn't deal with the guilt that she caused.