Thea, to me, is a very simplistic woman who, in a sense, has no control over her own life. She tends to let others run over her as if she figures she is of little to no importance and that her voice does not matter. In comparison to Hedda, she is very feminine. But this is because Hedda has many masculant ways in which places her under the category of being more masculant than feminine. For example, she was the dominant force in her marriage with George Tesman.