Blair couldn‘t help feeling annoyed at Serena for creating even more mystery around her return than there already was. Her friends were
practically squirming in their seats, eager to catch their first glimpse of Serena, as if she were some kind of celebrity. p. 40,
The friendship function of this gossip makes Blair even more frustrated.
Rain, Kati, and Isabel keep gossiping about Serena because it brings them together. When they are in school, including in the class, they do not stop talking
about the gossips. Meaning to say, they gather to gossip about the updated gossip which is about Serena. Serena is being more famous at school. Though it is
destructive for Serena, it influences Serena‘s conflict with Blair in a different way. Not tha
t Blair feels happy because Serena‘s reputation is broken; Blair seems upset because Serena has always been the one her friends gossip about. It should
be her being the centre of attention, not Serena. Conflict between Serena van der Woodsen and Blair Waldorf has deteriorated.
4. The Influences of Gossips among Chuck Bass, Roger Paine, and Jeffrey
Prescott toward Daniel Humphrey’s Internal Conflict
The pattern of the way the characters have a gossip and influences a particular conflict is almost the same as the previous one. The gossips among
Chuck Bass, Roger Paine, and Jeffrey Prescott influence Daniel‘s internal conflict. The fact that Dan unintentionally hears what Chuck, Roger, and Jeffrey
have gossiped influences his internal conflict. As mentioned in the first part of this analysis, Dan who has unspoken feeling toward Serena is shocked because of
what he has heard. This destructive gossip about Serena has changed his mind. He is confused whether he has to believe or resist the gossip. He has stalked Serena
for years but he cannot tell the truth that he loves her till the time Serena leaves
for a boarding school. Now, Serena is back and her followed gossips bother his feeling toward Serena. He keeps saying within his head that Serena is destined to
be good and marvelous for him to stalk. An a voidable conflict within Dan‘s minds
rises ; ―Dan had never heard such crap. Serena was no slut, she was prefect, wasn‘t
she? Wasn’t she?‖ p. 51.
Dan cannot stop thinking about the gossip. It influences Dan‘s internal
conflict becomes more complicated. Though Dan seems ignorant about Serena‘s return, in fact he cannot hold his minds to keep believing his conscience. His
internal conflict grows restless because of the influence of the gossip. Dan thought about what he‘s heard Chuck Bass say about Serena. He
hadn‘t wanted to believe any of it, but if Serena looked as experience as Jenny said, maybe what Chuck said was true. Maybe Serena really was the
sluttiest, druggiest, most vene really diseased girl in New York. p. 70.
5. The Influences of Gossips among Nate Archibald, Jeremy Scott
Tompkinson, Anthony Avuldsen, and Charlie Dern toward Nate Archibald’s Internal Conflict
Gossips among Nate Archibald, Jeremy Scott Tompkinson, Anthony Avuldsen, and Charlie Dern influence Nate Archibald‘s Internal Conflict The
pattern of how the gossip influences a particular conflict is the same as the gossips which influence Blair.
As mentioned previously, Nate‘s situation is almost the same as Blair‘s. Even though Nate keeps silent when his friends have a gossip, he
is the one who is influenced by the gossip. His internal conflict becomes more complicated. The time when Nate manages to convince himself to get Serena
back, he hears falsehood information which bothers both Serena‘s reputation and
Nate‘s feeling toward her. Nate hesitates his feeling instead.
