Nate Archibald’s Conflict
asks her to go right to his suite to clean her dress for being sloshed onto by her Cosmo sort of beverages. Their conflict appears. Chuck has apparently strong
desire to seduce Serena over his mind. Nevertheless, it does not ensue. Serena resists what Chuck has been done for her as a persuasive act. Serena insists to go
back home and Chuck cannot do anything anymore. Chuck is overly mad about this:
―Whatever,‖ Chuck said. He leaned into the cab and pressed Serena against the seat. ―What‘s your problem anyway?‖ he hissed. ―You‘ve been
fucking Nate Archibald since tenth grade, and I‘m sure you did just about every guy at boarding school, and in France, too. What, are you like, too
good to give me some?‖ p. 136, Serena is disappointed with what Chuck has screamed. They used to be
friends, but not anymore. Serena‘s friendship with her old friends just end. This conflict leads Serena into a hopeless life. The way Chuck has done to underrate
Serena is conscious. Chuck‘s desire toward Serena has a goal, to seduce Serena. This conflict has the same type as the conflict between Serena and her other
friends, a direct conflict. To make all the explanation above clear, the writer in this research makes
a table summing up the conflicts in the story in relation with the gossips.
Table 2 . Conflicts in Cecily von Ziegesar’s Gossip Girl in Relation with
the Gossips
No. Conflicts
Internal Conflict
External Conflicts Direct
Conflict Indirect
Conflict 1.
Blair Waldorf‘s Conflict
√ 2.
Daniel Humphrey‘s
Conflict √
3. Nate Archibald‘s
Conflict √
4. Conflict between
√
Serena van der Woodsen and Blair
Waldorf
5. Conflict between
Serena van der Woodsen and Chuck
Bass √
The conflicts presents above are related to the gossips described in the previous analysis. All the character which have conflicts is included among the
gossips, whether they are the gossipee or the gossiper. In external conflicts, they are also classified as direct conflict. The effort of someone to restrain the other to
attain particular goal makes them belong to direct conflict.