This adds to her isolation as she is so close to what she wants, but can never truly obtain it. Her attempt at reaching out, trying to make a meaningful connection, is with Brack. She begins to confide in him about her, mostly negative, feelings about the marriage, and the house is in many ways an extension of that. Hedda tells Brack that she thinks she has a “talent for only one think in life […] boring myself to death” (Ibsen 257). While it seems like an amusing comment, it is the second time she directly mentions being bored in the house, and that she did not know what she was going to do. It is not just a passing comment; she does not want to be in that house. She has concluded that her life would be
This adds to her isolation as she is so close to what she wants, but can never truly obtain it. Her attempt at reaching out, trying to make a meaningful connection, is with Brack. She begins to confide in him about her, mostly negative, feelings about the marriage, and the house is in many ways an extension of that. Hedda tells Brack that she thinks she has a “talent for only one think in life […] boring myself to death” (Ibsen 257). While it seems like an amusing comment, it is the second time she directly mentions being bored in the house, and that she did not know what she was going to do. It is not just a passing comment; she does not want to be in that house. She has concluded that her life would be