How It All Goes Down
- Things aren't all sunshine and lollipops (or lollipop guilds, for that matter) for Fiyero and Elphaba.
- They fight a lot, especially about Elphaba's work.
- And they argue about evil, which is Elphaba's favorite topic.
- Elphaba thinks Fiyero isn't political enough and acts like a sheltered child.
- Fiyero thinks Elphaba has a massive ego and that she fails to see the moral problems of her resistance movement, which borders on terrorism.
- The debate Fiyero and Elphaba have about terrorism, and whether or not it's ever justified, is an old one:
"Can there be grief, regret, in your exalted circle? Is there any such thing as a mistake? Is there a concept of tragedy?"
"Fiyero, you disaffected fool, the tragedy is all around us. Worrying about anything smaller is a distraction." (3.8.23-4) - Fiyero leaves angrily after this exchange and he and Elphaba don't speak for a day.