Family
Elphaba and Glinda had very different definitions of 'family'.
For Elphaba, family was a religious fanatic who avoided her whenever possible, a cold, distant mother who blamed her freakish elder daughter for the disfiguration of the younger one, and a needy, crippled sister who resented her dependence on Elphaba.
To Elphaba, family meant nothing.
For Glinda, family was an awkward, snappish girl seemingly incapable of showing affection, or indeed any emotion besides anger, an infatuated Munchkin, a Winkie boy who insisted he was brainless, and a trio of interchangeable society girls who really were brainless.
To Glinda, family meant everything.
