This is a really good episode. We begin to experience Dan's discomfort when he listens to high society people speak about travelling to Dubai knowing that he hasn't been there and cannot contribute to the conversation. I know exactly how that feels with high society people in church speaking about travelling to Nepal, Dubai and various other places that I haven't been to. All I could say was that I would soon be going to Yugoslavia.
Then there is the conversation that CeCe has with Dan. She says to him: 'The way you feel never goes away. When you speak, people don't hear you. They never see you when they look at you. They wonder if you're a charity case or an extra-curricular activity. Girls like Serena don't end up with Dan Humphrey. People like you turn into cocktail anecdotes of their youth.' That is such powerful writing. Having come from urban society myself and entered into high society in the church, I have experienced talking to people who don't hear me, and people looking at me without even seeing me. Some of them have looked through me and pretended as though they don't know me. I think I've probably ended up as a cocktail anecdote about how they extended charity to someone from the inner cities.
Then there is the conversation that CeCe has with Dan. She says to him: 'The way you feel never goes away. When you speak, people don't hear you. They never see you when they look at you. They wonder if you're a charity case or an extra-curricular activity. Girls like Serena don't end up with Dan Humphrey. People like you turn into cocktail anecdotes of their youth.' That is such powerful writing. Having come from urban society myself and entered into high society in the church, I have experienced talking to people who don't hear me, and people looking at me without even seeing me. Some of them have looked through me and pretended as though they don't know me. I think I've probably ended up as a cocktail anecdote about how they extended charity to someone from the inner cities.