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this is a really funny interview cuz there's literally not a scene in the wicked novel where elphaba and glinda are in the EC and fiyero comes up and glinda turns away. this isn't a thing that happens. these gliyero nachos are nonexistent. but ofc his overall point still stands--there are some instances that could be interpreted as glinda having feelings for fiyero. and it would be silly to dismiss his point because of a little error

but then you look at the two places where it's maybe implied glinda has feelings for fiyero. the first is when she meets him in the EC and immediately clocks he's having an affair and keeps begging him to meet. this definitely reads kind of like flirting--fiyero certainly seems to think it is. but this is completely turned on its head with her final line of the section: "if you should see [elphaba], tell her i miss her still." and this completely changes the implications of everything glinda says. it's not fiyero she's after--it's elphaba. obviously gregory's all about ambiguity and leaving things up to interpretation but if you read this entire section and your takeaway is "glinda has feelings for fiyero" and not "glinda misses elphaba and what fiyero mistakes as her flirting with him is actually her desire for elphaba slipping out or being sublimated onto elphaba's lover" i do have questions

the second scene is the one time glinda and elphaba do discuss fiyero in the book and its the reunion scene at colwen grounds. sarima suspected fiyero was carrying on an affair with glinda cuz for some reason fiyero kept harping on her legendary beauty in letters. elphaba confronts glinda about this by straight up asking did you have an affair with him, to which glinda turns yellow-pink, says something racist, and then the next paragraph is like "glinda wasn't even really paying attention to what they were talking about because the witch's presence was alarming her and causing her to blush like a schoolgirl and she's thinking about when she and elphaba shared a bed on the way to the emerald city." now, can we look at that scene and reasonably conclude that glinda's immediate, harsh denial of the affair was just her trying to conceal her feelings? like maybe but honestly that doesn't seem to be the part of glinda's feelings we should be focusing on