Hedda, Heidi, and A Street Car Named Desire

All of these plays focus on a woman experiencing changes in her environment. In both A Street Car Named Desire and Hedda the woman obviously does not fit into the mold of the woman at the time. Hedda extremely independent character contrast vehemently with the traditional woman of the time; while Blanche is has the opposite view of herself as she is stuck in the past and cannot break away from it. Similarly Heidi does not fit into the same ideal that the rest of the women in Heidi do, though she does support the cause and women's rights she adopts a child at the end going against the values of many strong feminists.

Children are also very important to all of these plays. There are many similarities between Heidi and Hedda in some respects towards children. In Hedda her child and other references to children are connected with death. To Hedda her unborn child is what will take away her current freedom; and in her death and her babies death her gets some of that freedom and power back. In Heidi her child is Heidi using her freedom to be a mother as well as having a career. To others her child also could represent her death in the protests for women's rights as she has given in to the stereotypes.