Gossip

Gossip is an interesting essay on an unconventional topic. She wants to prove that gossip is not an immoral talk and a wastage of time as is generally supposed. 

It is a use full exchange of views and a good social tradition. It is harmless exchange of views about others without any evil, motive. 

It is different from slender and leg pulling which are negative in approach. People gossip only about those whom they share the past experience or present interests. 

Francine prose defends gossiping as a light and popular source of amusement as well as information. It serves to relieve the mental tension. To be interested in other keeps us in forgetting ourselves. It is creative activity similar to fiction writing. 

A gossiper has to use his imaginative faculty to make his talk interesting and enjoyable. People love to know the secrets of others, through they do not like to let their own secrets knows to others. That is why people like to gossip about other but do not permit others to gossip about themselves. So, gossip is unavoidable need of every men life.