David Lynch’s 22 Strangest ‘Otherworld’ Characters
13. Glinda The Good Witch: Wild At Heart
If youre truly wild at heart, fight for your dreams. Dont turn away from love. Although Wild At Heart contains a vast amount of weird and wonderful characters, only one of them feels truly otherworldly: Sheryl Lees Glinda The Good Witch. She only appears briefly at the films conclusion, and it is unclear whether she is simply a figment of Sailors (Nicholas Cage) imagination, but she seems to hold a similar role to that of The Grandmother earlier in the list. She is, as her name suggests, a truly good figure that offers Sailor very clear advice about following his dreams and his heart. Her role in the narrative, then, sees her effectively encouraging him to go back to Lula (Laura Dern), granting the audience the happy ending that they desire. This theme a glorious, brightly-lit conclusion in which characters seem to be granted the idyllic, beautiful ending that they desire occurs in many of Lynchs films, from Fire Walk With Me to Inland Empire, and the appearance of Glinda The Good Witch embodies this.
