Who is Beth Waldorf from I Like It Like That: A Gossip Girl Novel and what is their importance?

Blair Waldorf is a wealthy, privileged girl who lives in Manhattan and attends an exclusive private school. Blair will be graduating and has interviewed at Yale but feels she did not do well at her orals. Her future lies in the balance. She has no idea if she'll be accepted at Yale or, for that matter, anywhere else. She is not happy at home. She doesn't like her step-father and her mother is seven-months pregnant with a little girl which Blair finds embarrassing.

Since Blair will be away at school, her mother starts redecorating Blair's room for the new arrival without even discussing it with Blair. Blair is hurt by her mother's disregard for her feelings. And, she is not happy that her family is going to Hawaii for Spring Break. Serena invites Blair to move in with her and to go to Sun Valley and ski for Spring Break week. Blair accepts and although she's still hung up on Nate Archibald, the local heartthrob, Blair is excited at being at the lodge with Serena's older hunky brother, Erik, for a week.

Blair spends a lot of time with Erik on the slopes but keeps a watchful eye on Nate and his new girlfriend, Georgie, during the week. Although she is not in love with Erik, she decides to chose him to enter into the first adult relationship of her life. In the end, Blair breaks it off with Erik which suits Nate just fine.

When Blair returns home, she is greeted by her mother who really missed her. She gets a call from her father who encourages her about school. And, she learns that Nate is still hung up on her. Things are looking up for Blair who still doesn't know about school but whose life is taking a turn for the better at the end of this episode of Gossip Girl.