Gossip
Girl, the recent television series, depicts the
daily life occurrences of the upper class in New York City, and all the scandalous
and eventful aspects of their melodramatic lives. Not only is there an obvious
comparison between this show and the novel The
Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, due to the setting of the series being
in New York City and many instances in the novel occurring in the eventful city, but,
also due to many of the characters in each of the examples. The character Dan
Humphrey in Gossip Girl is a naïve and
struggling writer and entrepreneur who is determined, yet, hesitant to become a
part of the elite class and is eventually misled by it, reflecting the innocent and exploited Nick Carraway. The relationship
between two of the lead characters Chuck Bass and Blair Waldorf somewhat
mirrors the relationship between Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan. Chuck and Blair
have a complicated relationship and are both aware of one another’s love for
the other, but, are unable to officially be together due to complications and interferences. Like Gatsby, Chuck is obsessed
with his female counterpart and is consumed by the idea of their future
together. Although never represented by an actual character like most TV shows,
the narrator is an important character, similarly Nick Carraway plays an
important role as the narrator and acts as both the informer of many events
that are not played out in the novel properly and the voice of reason in many
instances, which often occurs in Gossip
Girl as well. Both Gossip Girl
and The Great Gatsby reveal the
glamorous and evil side to the upper class in the north east and how it can devastate
and amaze its victims.
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