*retelling of Fiyero and Elphaba’s romance*

-Fiyero: normal student, light brown hair, green eyes, 5′11”

-Elphaba: green skin, black wavy hair, 5′6”, smart

-Galidna: 5′6”, blonde curly hair, bimbo

-Elphaba and Fiyero meet in a history class at Shiz senior year

-Elphaba starts to like Fiyero and tells Galinda

-Galinda jealous Elphie got a hot guy and she can’t have him

-Elphaba and Fiyero begin to date and go out for coffee

-Galinda tries to break up relationship

-graduation Fiyero gives Elphie a black scarf w/ red roses

-Fiyero goes for business in Emerald City

-Elphaba goes and lives w/ him

-Galinda visits Fiyero while Elphaba is out

-trys to seduce him

-Elphaba comes back to find the two

-cat fight

-Galinda wins and steals Fiyero

-Elphaba frantically searches for him

-Galind and Fiyero to be married

-Elphaba plots revenge and sends message to Fiyero

-wedding ceremony

-Elphaba flys in on broom when priest says “Does anyone object”

-steals Fiyero and flys away

-live happily ever after and have children

-Galinda heartbroken and goes into exile on outskirts of Oz

*twist*- Elphie and Fiyero already married when Galinda steals him

Reader Response #1

-Galinda goes to Shiz academy

-she is placed with Elphaba as a roomate

-Galinda ignores Elphaba for the most part and becomes friends with the other rich girls

-Galinda makes Elphaba try on one of her hats so she can tell the other girls about it

-at the quell reading Galinda ignores Elphaba and talks to a guy from munchkinland

-also at the quell reading animal teachers are offended by one of the poems

     During this chapter we are introduced to a character named Galinda. In The Wizard of Oz, Galinda is the character known as Glenda the Good Witch. However, the novel Wicked does not portray her as necessarily being good. I thought it was interesting that she is first introduced as sort of a spoiled brat. She is more worried about her clothes and how she will fit in at the academy than her scholastic life. I thought it was interesting that each girl was supposed to have an Aba to take care of them and their room arrangements. I figured that since these girls were going off to school they would be too old for a nanny. It is intriguing that just because Galinda is Gillikinese she thought of herself better than some of the other girls including Elphaba, and that she should get special treatment. An example of this is when she talks to the headmaster of the girl’s school and tries to be removed from the dormitory. She references her family’s name and where they came from to try and acquire another room. 

     Because of Galinda’s name in The Wizard of Oz, I thought she would be a nice person who would befriend Elphaba. However, she did exactly the opposite. I found it horrible how Galinda treated Elphaba in this chapter. I didn’t think it was right of Galinda to make fun of Elphaba the way that she did. Forcing her to try on one of her hats just so she could brag about it to the other girls how silly Elphaba looked was truly mean. I also can’t believe that she called Elphaba names and degraded her to the other girls. You would think that someone of upper class status might have a little more tact than to talk about others in hurtful ways.

     Something else I found peculiar is how easily Galinda lies. When she creates the story about her Aba thinking things are alive that aren’t and vice versa, I was shocked. I couldn’t believe how easily those words slipped out of her mouth and how lying didn’t seem to bother her. All of this was done for her own personal gain. Galinda in this novel does not care about anyone but herself, whereas in The Wizard of Oz all she does is care for other people and creatures.