I don’t think we talk enough about how the entirety of Wicked is built on the irony of No One Mourns the Wicked. The musical exists because Glinda feels the need to tell Elphaba’s story, because she is in mourning and entirely alone in that. Glinda’s love is what creates the musical because no one mourns Elphaba except her, and that is an incredibly lonely place to be. She’s just lost two of the most important people to her, and all she’s trying to do is make someone, anyone else see how important they were.
i think part of it too is looking back on “what they could do together” had she refused to benefit from the injustice perpetrated by the Wizard and Morrible
it is because of Glinda’s complicity that Elphie’s name was never cleared and she has to mourn her best friend alone. this is the driving force behind every change she makes at the end of the movie. but it is still too late to save Elphie.
