# Hedda Gabler — Character guide

> Key figures in Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen.

- [Hedda Gabler](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hedda_gabler_se/characters/hedda_gabler.md): Hedda Tesman has returned from a six-month wedding tour to a house she never wanted, and she tells Judge Brack she has been mortally bored — dancing herself tired, she says, before accepting George. She keeps her father'
- [George Tesman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hedda_gabler_se/characters/george_tesman.md): Tesman has spent his wedding tour grubbing among old records and returns home expecting a professorship, a growing library, and a happy wife. He adores Hedda with an earnestness that never quite reaches her, and his aunt
- [Judge Brack](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hedda_gabler_se/characters/judge_brack.md): Brack moves easily through the Tesmans' drawing room, offering Hedda the gossip and company her marriage denies her, and proposing a comfortable 'triangular friendship' with himself at its center. He is frank about his r
- [Ejlert Lövborg](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hedda_gabler_se/characters/ejlert_lovborg.md): Lövborg was Tesman's academic rival and Hedda's former companion in a world of forbidden talk, and he arrives back in town sober, disciplined, and newly dependent on Thea Elvsted's devotion. His manuscript — the book he 
- [Thea Elvsted](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hedda_gabler_se/characters/thea_elvsted.md): Thea Elvsted arrives at the Tesmans' with the anxious courage of someone who has already risked everything, confessing that she left her husband and home to keep Lövborg working. She was once a schoolmate Hedda tormented
- [Juliana Tesman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hedda_gabler_se/characters/juliana_tesman.md): Miss Tesman arrives at the newlyweds' house with a bouquet and a bonnet, eager to see her boy settled and to hear whether there are any 'expectations' yet. She has given up her own household and her longtime servant Bert
- [Berta](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hedda_gabler_se/characters/berta.md): Berta has spent years keeping house for George Tesman and the Misses Tesman, and the transfer to his new marriage feels less like a promotion than a quiet bereavement. She frets openly about Miss Rina's care and about wh
- [Aunt Rina](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hedda_gabler_se/characters/aunt_rina.md): Tesman's elderly and bedridden aunt, mentioned but never seen on stage.
- [Mademoiselle Diana](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hedda_gabler_se/characters/mademoiselle_diana.md): A singer and keeper of a disreputable house visited by Lövborg.
- [Sheriff Elvsted](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hedda_gabler_se/characters/sheriff_elvsted.md): Thea's much older husband, a local sheriff mentioned but not seen.
- [Secretary Falk](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hedda_gabler_se/characters/secretary_falk.md): A deceased acquaintance mentioned in passing by Aunt Juliana.

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