which is what makes this line all the more special and heartbreaking. because she knows that despite everything that has happened, glinda truly sees her and never saw her as the ww and she has to try and shatter that perception so glinda will face reality
insane how glinda has literally no reason to smile at all, she's just been through the worst 2 days of her life, fiyero's dead, she's losing her elphie, yet a simple "just look at me" makes her face go all soft and for a second her eyes get their sparkle back