Something that makes me so emotional about book Elphaba is the incredibly subtle ways she shows her love for Glinda, so on par with Elphabaâs character and so subtle that if you blink you miss it.
Elphaba kisses Glinda on the carriage, thatâs explicit, but before that she nearly misses it because she was buying food. For Glinda. Elphaba knew very well she wasnât going back to Shiz that day, yet she still bought Glinda food with money she definitely needed for herself just so that Glinda wouldnât be hungry on the way home.
Then you have the way she visits Saint Glindaâs shrine, Glindaâs namesake. Elphaba is not religious whatsoever, sheâs very vitriolic towards the idea of religion in the book, yet she visits a Unionist shrine of all places that just happens to have statues of her âbest friendâsâ namesake.
She also asks the most questions of all about Glinda when Fiyero visits her, and asks about her first to add to that. Elphaba wants to know the most about Glinda. More than her father, Nessarose, Shell, the people who are her family (said loosely). More than even Fiyero, and heâs sitting right in front of her. She couldnât care less about Fiyeroâs wife yet is thoroughly offended when she finds out Glinda âonlyâ married a baronet.
When Fiyero asks if Elphaba is married, she says âyes, but not to a manâ and breaks down in tears. In the book water does hurt Elphaba, including her tears, so it stands to reason she doesnât cry often. But the thought of being âmarriedâ to someone that isnât there, that she canât be with, is enough to cause her to harm herself even if itâs inadvertently. It would make sense for it to be Glinda, for Glinda is the only person to ever have even brought her close to tears.
And finally, this one is just silly, but the way Fiyero makes a comment on how Elphaba didnât bleed the first time they have sex and the way she just blows him off by saying âwell Iâm not as virginal as you thinkâ one hundred percent means Glinda was her first time.
I also do think that Elphaba really does love Fiyero, and I do mean romantically. But in the end heâs still just a distraction, a balm for the fact that the one person Elphaba truly wants is the person she canât have. And that person is Glinda.
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