At one point, Boq, a Munchkinlander student from Briscoe Hall, forms a crush on her, eventually falling in love with her, but she rejects him due to differences in appearances, race and social status, though she does agree to be friends with him which Boq accepts. So instead she quickly makes friends with a group of girlsВ on campus who enjoy partaking in the same interest and hobbies which allows Galinda to have an active social life and quickly become extremely popular among her fellow peers. She is the complete opposite of Galinda.ДЄt first, Galinda tries to ignore Elphaba and pretends she is not her roommate by not giving her the time of day to be properly acquainted. To Galinda's surprise the roommate, whose name is Elphaba Thropp, is a green skinned girl with a great apathy towards beauty, fashion and social standing. However, despite her inner insecurities she is also intelligent enough to be accepted to Shiz University's Crage Hall, where she is forced to share a room with another student due to her chaperone, Ama Clutch, being temporarily delayed. She is snobby, superficial, and obsessed with appearing to be high-class enough, due to the fact she's only partially noble.

Her character is seen extensively in the first half of the novel, but disappears for most of the second half. Through her parents, she is descended from the noble clans of the Arduennas and of the Uplands of Gillikin. Maybe she's the idealized version of Dorothy's missing mother-beautiful, kind, all-knowing, helpful, and protective, but letting Dorothy figure things out for herself.Galinda is a beautiful and wealthy girl of Gillikinese descent and the daughter of Highmuster Arduenna and Larena Upland. Just like a good mentor, or mother, does. So she acts as a guide: pointing the way, giving good advice and occasionally stepping in when the kid can't quite make it herself, but letting Dorothy find her own way as much as she can. GLINDA: She had to find it out for herself. But then, of course, there would be no movieвЂ¦ and as Glinda herself says, If you think about it, she could have just told Dorothy how the ruby slippers worked at the beginning. She also knows that she can't just hand Dorothy everything she needs. But while most of Oz is surprising and pretty weird, Glinda just gives out a friendly grownup vibe, and while she definitely represents a new and untested world, she's still more than happy to give a girl a hand when first stepping into it.

She's from the outside world, the place Dorothy has never been to, and as such she knows all about what Dorothy's getting herself into.

That's important to her role as Dorothy's mentor. Add to that the fact that she travels around in an enchanted soap bubble, and you really get her 'not from around here' vibe. It certainly emphasizes her magic-ness more than the others, since she doesn't have to live down to the black-and-white normal world. Glinda is only Glinda, and that may say something about her part in all of this. Not that she could traipse around the prairie in that ballroom gown she wears, but even so, you'd think she show up as a nice teacher or a crusading dog lover or something.ДЄs it turns out, no. Funny thing about Glinda: she's the only character in Oz who doesn't have an eerie lookalike back in Kansas.

Glinda the good witch