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CHAPTER V CONCLUSION
This research comes to the last chapter which covers all the explanation in the previous chapters in a brief way. Exploring Cecily von Ziegesar’s Gossip Girl
as the main object, the writer in this research narrows the topic by choosing the conflicts and the gossips within the story to discuss about. Conflict is one of the
prominent elements that a story should have. Even for teenagers, conflicts are always around them. Psychologically, it is possible because they are attention
seekers Marwick, 2011: 23. They seek the attention through the gossip they share. As the title suggests, Gossip Girl, the story narrated by Ziegesar definitely
tells about gossips spoken by girls. Nevertheless, the writer in this research figures out that it is not only girls having the gossips, but also the boys. At last, both
elements in the story closely relate each other. In this story, gossips influence how some conflict starts, rises and ends
from whether the gossipee’s or the gossipers’ point of view.
The first analysis shows that there are 6 gossips in the story. There are gossips among Mrs. Bass, Mrs. Coates, and Mrs. Archibald, gossips among
Chuck Bass, Kati Farkas, and Isabel Coates, gossips among Rain Hoffstetter, Kati Farkas, and Isabel Coates, gossips among Chuck Bass, Roger Paine, and Jeffrey
Presscott, gossips among Nate Archibald, Jeremy Scott Tompkinson, Anthony Avuldsen, and Charlie Dern, and Gossips in GossipGirl.net. Those are classified
as their function through the gossipee’s and the gossipers’ point of view. Most of
them are destructive if it is looked from the gossipee’s point of view because it endangers the gossipee’s reputation. However, based the gossipers’ point of view,
most of them function as friendship because they gossip in private to distinguish the outsider.
The second findings are the conflicts in the story which is related to the gossips mentioned previously. The conflicts are distinguished into internal and
external conflict. Moreover, all the external conflict belongs to direct conflict because the characters show effort to restrain the others.
Finally, there are some points that a gossip can influence a particular conflict. As classified based on its function, gossips influence the conflicts in a
different way. Most of the gossips which are destructive for the gossipee, Serena, influence the conflict which Serena includes and worsen them. It starts, rises, and
ends the characters’ internal conflict and the conflict between Serena and other characters. Nevertheless, the gossip about Eleanor Waldorf and Cyrus Rose which
functions as avoidance, if it is looked from the gossipee’s point of view, it also
influences Blair Waldorf’s internal conflict in raising it. Hence, no matter the gossips are, it affects the conflict which the gossipees include.
From the gossipers’ point of views which mostly function as friendship, it does not really give influence to the conflict. There are only two gossips which
include Blair and her friends that influence the conflict between Serena and Blair. It is because the teenage Blair is an attention seeker. The friendship gossips bring
them together and make them keep gossiping about Serena. Therefore, the conflict between Blair and Serena worsens because Blair loses her popularity among her
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