The Wild Duck Journal #1

In The Wild Duck, a character that stood out with false conceptions about himself is Gregers. He believes that after all those years, he came back to his fathers house to learn that he has a mission in life that he has to accomplish. Gregers believes that the only way to fix things and accomplish his mission is by revealing the truth. He brings in little hints now and then within the novel but does not clearly state what they are until it is revealed in the end. Gregers mission in life clearly led to the death of an innocent child. Since he was away for a long time, he feels like nothing is better than the truth because he see's the Ekdal family living under this deep and dark place where the truth is hidden, therefore it should be revealed. Even though he didn't plan for Hedvig's death, he had false misconceptions about himself by believing that it was the right thing for him to do.
Hjalmar is a character that had misconceptions about others. Hjalmar belives throughout the story that Gina is this faithful, amazing woman that he was lucky to be with. He does not have a single hair of doubt about her. Although she acts upon certain things strangely, like not wanting Gregers to rent their room, he does not question her. Even Gregers misconcepts Gina because he did not know that she would be the one marrying Hjalmar and also lying to him and creating this fake family bond that worked fall a long time.
Relling is a character that somewhat recognizes the facade created by Gregers. He doesn't know that this facade is revealing Gina's mistakes, but he knows it is something that could destruct the Ekdal's family. There is a possibility that Relling thinks that Gregers is going to destroy the facade created by Relling himself on the Ekdal families by giving them a misconception of something to thrive for yet will never happen, such as the invention that he put forth for Hjalmar. Relling somewhat confronts the facade that Gregers is creating but he is not certain about his position. Gregers also most certainly recognizes the facade created by Gina which is why he wants to reveal the truth and feels that he has this mission in life of making the family better. He does not ignore this facade, but confronts it in an indirect way.