The Wild Duck
By Henrik Ibsen (translated by Eleanor Marx Aveling)
Cover: Sending for the Doctor (Bud etter legen) (1881), oil on canvas by Christian Krohg (1852-1925) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1925)
Gregers Werle, newly returned home, decides to open the eyes of his old friend Hjalmar Ekdal to the secret on which his comfortable marriage rests. His mission to make a household live in truth has devastating results for the girl who loves her pet wild duck.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.