Problem Formulation Objectives of the Study

in Socialite Community toward the Main Character Jenny Humprey, this study uses the same novel as this research uses which is Cecily von Ziegesar’s Gossip Girl. Nevertheless, she used hedonism in socialite community as the main topic, and related it into the character’s personality changing. Jenny Humphrey, one of the main characters, is totally different from the character’s stereotype of this novel. She is sweet, kind, innocent girl, yet not a socialite. Surrounded by many socialites friends makes her want to be like them, including being hedonistic. Her appearance, lifestyle and trait change after she meets the socialites. Everything is done to be like her socialites friends, to be like Serena, Blair although it is impossible because she has no family name, no popularity, no wealth. She becomes an unrealistic person. And the socialite life is not suitable at Jenny characteristics and lifestyle. Risti, 2010: 55-56 From the four studies explained above, the writer of this research hereby states that they differ from what this research tries to figure out. In one hand, Schantz discusses gossip as feminist revelation in Jane Austen’s Persuasion. This study is used to acknowledge how to trace a literary work through gossip. On the other hand Pattee discusses the Gossip Girl series and Mechling writes about an argument that Gossip Girl is basically about Cecily von Ziegesar’s teen life. Those are needed to support this research in doing the analysis. Meanwhile, the writer of this research also discusses the last study mentioned because it has used Gossip Girl previously as the object of the study for an undergraduate thesis. The four studies are presented to strengthen that the idea of this research is purely original from the writer and to be an endorsing studies in analyzing the problems on the next fourth chapter.

B. Review of Related Theories

1. Theory of Conflict

Conflict is one of the intrinsic elements in a literary work that always exits in everyday life. It can bring the satisfaction of the reader in reading a literary work. Every writer should concern how to make a story keep moving. This movement is commonly come up with the resolution of conflict. Conflict can occur when there is “a clash between characters, between a character and his environment, within himself, a clash of forces in the universe, even a struggle for meaning on the part of the reader ” Beaty, 1973: 604. Conflict grabs readers’ interests to take a part of the story. Hugh Holman and William Harmon in A Handbook to Literature 1986: 107-108 state that conflict is a struggle within a plot which grows out of the interplay of the two opposing forces. A struggle against another person, a struggle against society, a struggle against nature, a struggle for mastery by two elements with the person, and the struggle against fate or destiny are 4 different classifications of conflict and one additional possibility of conflict. Not only does conflict imply the struggle between a protagonist against someone or something, but also it implies the existence of some motivation for the conflict or some aims to be achieved thereby. Robert Stanton in his An Introduction to Fiction 1964: 16 states that every conflict in a literary work can be distinguished into two: internal conflict and external conflict. Both conflicts can be in turn subordinate to the central conflict. It is indeed always between fundamental and contrasting qualities or