Serena Van Der Woodsen's Gossip Girl

Gossip Girl is a great example of Identity, conformity, and society because the characters are conforming the way they act to please society. Gossip girl is about a group of rich teenages who live on the upper east side of New York and their parent are very rich people who are high on the social status of New York, while the kids struggle to live up to what their parents have built for them. I am going to talk about Serena Van Der Woodsen alot because her life is in the spotlight the most throughout the show. She changes throughout the story, some times for the better, and sometimes for the worst. She grows and learns that she doesn’t need to conform, just that she needs to make herself happy. The role of Serena in society I feel is that she always has to be doing something good for publicity. She is a completely different person when she’s not in the spotlight than when she’s at home. She has to have two faces so that it doesn’t affect the way people see her. "There's a weak link in every chain. And it's just a matter of time before this one snaps." Serena said this quote when stuff was getting too hard for her a society shouldn’t make people go through this stuff because people will break.Although sometimes her real self shows and people start to judge her because she isn’t the way people think she should

In Gossip Girl Serena conforms by changing whos she is throughout the show to be like the people she is friends with. I think the kids on this show conform so that they can fit in without being judged. Sometimes Serena doesn’t conform to be like everyone else because she gets tired of it and doesn’t want to be like the others. Sometime she doesn’t conform because her life isn’t the best at home and she needs to act out so that she can get her mothers attention. The result of Serena’s choices is that she makes friends, loses friend, gets more opportunities, or less, and her parents’