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Gossip Girl Character Analysis

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New York’s Upper East Side is home to the socialites and wealthy, who live on scandals and care about how high on the social ladder they are. In the first episode of Gossip Girl, Pilot, viewers are introduced to each character’s crazy, drama-filled life. “It” girl, Serena Van der Woodsen, has just returned from a mysterious absence and everyone welcomes her with open arms except her childhood best friend, Blair Waldorf. Blair is known as the queen bee at Constance St. Jude prep school and rules the school with her first love, Nate Archibald. Gossip Girl is known for its Blair-Serena showdowns. One day they’re having brunch at Butter then the next day fighting over boys in The New York Palace. The story also involves a snobbish bad boy, Chuck Bass, who is the only person who knows why Serena left New York in such a …show more content…

It’s a show with beautiful Caucasian women as the protagonist and rich men whose lives revolve around these women. The show is set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. This portrays the high class, luxurious living of the characters. Blair and Serena can be seen shopping up and down the streets of New York, stopping at Henri Bendel and Vera Wang. Blair and Serena are the typical TV show characters. The tall, slim and blonde haired Serena is seen as the fun, beautiful and free-spirited girl, while the arrogant Blair with her thick, dark brown hair seem to fall into Serena’s shadow. Throughout the show, I notice Blair is constantly jealous of the attention Serena gets. Another predictable characteristic of Gossip Girl is who is dating who. People are constantly breaking up with each other then getting back together. It seems like everyone on the show has dated each other and could be seen as equivalent to a daytime soap opera. At this point the show can become boring since nothing new or shocking is happening. Either the creators are unoriginal or think we like predictable

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