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Why does the Scarecrow want to meet the Wizard of Oz?

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Illustration by W.W. Denslow showing Dorothy comforting the Cowardly Lion on a yellow brick road, with Toto, the Tin Woodsman, and the Scarecrow nearby in a forest. — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz An illustrated page by W.W. Denslow in L. Frank Baum's *The Wonderful Wizard of Oz*.

In L. Frank Baum's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the Scarecrow wishes to meet the Great Wizard of Oz because he desires to have a brain. He believes that he lacks intelligence and hopes the Wizard can grant him this wish.1