Glinda In The Chapel Analysis

Fiyero, on business in the Emerald City, looks for a picture of Saint Glinda in a chapel and mentions that they are hard to find. He notices a familiar figure in the chapel, Elphaba, who pretends like she does not know him. Fiyero does not give up and eventually follows her to her place, where Elphaba gives in and invites him in. Fiyero talks about his life, how he his married with three kids and a prince of his tribe, but Elphaba does not tell him what she has been doing the past five years. He catches her up on what he has heard about Glinda; how she is married, and finally Elphaba talks a little about her own life. She is part of an underground faction and is afraid of being caught, so she makes Fiyero leave and tells him to not come back. Relentless, Fiyero comes back and tells Elphaba all the gossip he knows about their friends from Shiz. For instance, Boq and Milla married, but she is unhappy and suicidal, but Avaric is well off. Fiyero develops feelings for Elphaba and keeps
returning to see her. He does not intend to go back home anytime soon. He tells Elphaba how he is not completely happy in his marriage. It seems like a political marriage where he is not truly in love with his wife. Elphaba and Fiyero have an affair, but Elphaba, or Fae, disappears on missions occasionally. One day, Fiyero asks Elphaba about her family after hearing about armed forces in Quadling Country.
Elphaba opens up about how her dad would take her with him when he worked so she saw many things that most children do not see, like the oppressions the Quadling people went through. Regardless, she says she still loves her father but does not want to be Eminent Thropp. With her being underground, the position goes to her sister, Nessarose. In addition to their lovemaking, Elphaba and Fiyero argue about her underground work. She thinks Fiyero does not understand what she does and why she does it and he thinks she does not see the real issue behind her movement, which he believes is very close to terrorism. Later on, at a café overlooking a prison or “school,” Fiyero witnesses a Bear cub beaten by the Gale Force for not lining up with the rest of the prisoners. At this moment, he feels sympathy for the cub and tries to better understand Elphaba and why she is part of this
movement. While out buying scarves for his wife and mistress, Fiyero runs into old friends, Glinda and Crope. Glinda seems like she is back to being Galinda, shallow and talkative. She is married to a man names Chuffrey but has no kids. She tells him she saw Nanny and Nessa, and insists on Fiyero visiting her again. He says he will try but does not reach out to see her again. Elphaba warns Fiyero of one of her missions but does not give him details. She just tells him she loves him, to be safe the day before Lurlinemas, and to stay away from crowded places. Fiyero follows her to a theater where she is supposedly going to assassinate Madame Morrible, but fails to when a bunch of girls from a school gather around Madame Morrible. Fiyero makes his way back to Elphaba’s place looking for her. Instead, the Gale Force is there and they beat him up. The chapter ends with Elphaba showing up to a nunnery. A nun, Mother Yackle, takes her in when she sees she has blood on her but returns to the Lurlinemas party.