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.
There was something so careless about the way Serena had said it. Nate suddenly had no trouble imagining her doing the things he‘d heard she‘d
done. With Serena, anything was possible. p. 142, Nevertheless, this gossip which is destructive for Serena, also influence
Nate‘s internal conflict to find way in solving his conflict. Nate cannot help himself to rebuild his feeling toward Serena because of the bad things that have
been told through the gossip. Although it is overly untrue, Serena‘s reputation has just broken. Nate does not have any initiative anymore to get Serena back. He
prefers to keep Blair for his life. In the end, Nate‘s two desires have gone. He does not want Serena anymore. It is Blair, Nate wishes for.
Nate wound a strand of Blair‘s hair around his finger and breathed in the scent of her perfume. It felt okay, standing there, holding her. It felt like
something he could do. For now, and maybe forever. He didn‘t need
Serena. p. 183.
6. The Influences of Gossips in GossipGirl.net
The last part of the analysis is an exception. It does not have the same pattern as other gossips do. The gossiper is not known, the writer of the website is
not mentioned at all. This is why the way gossips in GossipGirl.net influence the conflict is different. It is followed by some steps so that the gossips can be
counted as giving influences. The gossips in the website do not influence the conflicts within the story directly. They are relegated into the gossips between the
characters which have been explained clearly before. From that point, the conflicts are influenced through those relegated gossips. There are some steps
until certain conflicts can attain the influences. The first step is that the gossips in GossipGirl.net may be the sources to the characters gossiping. Because the
contents of the gossips between the website and the characters are the same, it
leads the writer of this research tends to think that the website is the initial source of all. After that, some conflicts can get influenced by the gossips among the
characters as described before which apparently comes from the gossips in GossipGirl.net.
Before explaining the way the gossips in GossipGirl.net influence some particular conflict. The writer in this research needs to explain more about the
statement that the characters there read them regularly. There are some implicit words which clarify that. The dialogue in the novel shows implicitly that the
characters read the website as well. After reading the content of the website, psychologically, it is nature for them to share to each other as many teenagers do
to obtain attention. Having a gossip is likely efficient to attain their goal. ―I just read a definition of what one was the other day,‖ Isabel mused. ―I
can‘t remember where I saw it.‖ ―GossipGirl.net, perhaps?‖
―They‘re almost extinct,‖ Blair added. p. 93, After showing the evidence that GossipGirl.net is quite famous among the
characters, this goes to the prominent part which is about the steps the gossips in GossipGirl.net influence some particular conflict indirectly.
a. Gossips about Serena’s Disease
It is the gossip between Chuck Bass, Roger Paine and Jeffrey Prescott which also have a gossip about the disease had by Serena. Instead of considering S as
other girls, they seem to decide that S stands for Serena van der Woodsen. There is no direct effect for any conflicts from this gossip in GossipGirl.net. It just
influences the characters in the story to have a gossip to share which later on influences particular conflict which have been explained in the preceded.
