Elphaba is so secretive, almost no one knows any characteristics of the green girl. Elphaba has so many different personalities, that almost every day she is a uniquely changed or out-right hid. No one (including her) and find the way out, or even figure out who she really is. She never really knows who or what she is, she may just be broken, from everyone treating her like an animal. Elphaba can only see herself in the mirror, well to know who she is (at least in one way). Elphaba Thropp is green, it's always the very first thing people notice about her. Elphaba spends her entire life dealing with other people's reaction to her skin color, she keeps trying to make herself disappear or "become and un" as she puts it (188 Mugure). The problem with making yourself disappear is that it tends to limit the things you can actually do.
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This is the major thing Elphaba never grasps about herself. She struggles with her oddness, she tries to embrace and emphasize her own uniqueness in her youth (particularly through her pro-Animal quest), and she seems at least somewhat aware of her "special" nature. By the time the answers start showing up about herself and her origins, she almost does not care enough to register them. People around Elphaba tend to recognize that there's something special about her, but Elphaba herself does not. This is crucial, because it's other people who create and define the Wicked Witch of the West. Glinda actually gets at the oddness of Elphaba, laying the groundwork for the Dwarf's eventual proclamation that “...You are neither this or that-or shall I say both this and that? Both of Oz and of the other world...You are a half-breed, you are a new breed”(Maguire 374).People around Elphaba tend to recognize that there's something special about her, but Elphaba herself does not. This is crucial, because it's other people who create and define the Wicked Witch of the
This is the major thing Elphaba never grasps about herself. She struggles with her oddness, she tries to embrace and emphasize her own uniqueness in her youth (particularly through her pro-Animal quest), and she seems at least somewhat aware of her "special" nature. By the time the answers start showing up about herself and her origins, she almost does not care enough to register them. People around Elphaba tend to recognize that there's something special about her, but Elphaba herself does not. This is crucial, because it's other people who create and define the Wicked Witch of the West. Glinda actually gets at the oddness of Elphaba, laying the groundwork for the Dwarf's eventual proclamation that “...You are neither this or that-or shall I say both this and that? Both of Oz and of the other world...You are a half-breed, you are a new breed”(Maguire 374).People around Elphaba tend to recognize that there's something special about her, but Elphaba herself does not. This is crucial, because it's other people who create and define the Wicked Witch of the