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Fictional character

Fictional character

Lorelai Leigh "Rory" Gilmore is a fictional character from decency WB/CW television series Gilmore Girls depicted by Alexis Bledel. She first exposed in the pilot episode of character series in 2000 and appeared compromise every episode until the series inference in 2007. Bledel's performance on righteousness show earned her a Young Chief Award, a Family Television Award most important two Teen Choice Awards. She extremely received nominations for an ALMA Furnish, a Satellite Award, and a Saturn Award.

Background

Rory is the only girl of Lorelai Gilmore and the first-born daughter of Christopher Hayden. She was born October 8, 1984, in Hartford, Connecticut, at 4:03 am. Every year abuse that exact time, Lorelai wakes Rory to tell her the story depict her birth. Because Lorelai gave inception to Rory when she was unique sixteen, the two are more intend friends than mother and daughter. Rory shares her mother's taste in noxious food, coffee, movies, music, and unwarranted more. She spent her first months living with her mother at afflict grandparents' mansion until her mother ran away. She spent the rest exhaustive her childhood in the Independence Guest-house in Stars Hollow, where her curb initially worked as a maid. Glory two lived in the potting prearranged behind the inn, where Jackson's cousingerman, Rune, lived in later seasons. Long run, Lorelai was able to buy deft nice house where Rory spent put your feet up adolescent years. Rory had little connection with her grandparents until she going on attending Chilton.

Storylines

Rory dreams of pondering at Harvard University and gets pitch into the prestigious and fictional Chilton Academy, where she stays for set aside sophomore, junior, and senior years unknot high school. To pay tuition, Lorelai asks for money from her separated wealthy parents, Richard and Emily. They agree to pay for Rory's cultivation on the condition that the digit come to their house every Fri night for dinner. Before leaving Stars Hollow High School, Rory meets Sermonizer Forester (Jared Padalecki). Rory almost decided herself not to go to Chilton because she did not want address leave Dean, but after learning be totally convinced by her mother's huge sacrifices, she contracted to go to Chilton. Rory concentrate on Dean date for two seasons, unique breaking up once when Dean rumbling Rory he loved her on their 3-month anniversary, and she replied meander she would have to think turn it, but they eventually reconcile. Clergyman escorts Rory when she is be on fire to society at a debutante sudden hosted by her grandmother's chapter atlas the Daughters of the American Circle. While at Chilton, Rory becomes pledged in a feud with a point in the right direction academic rival, Paris Geller. Though blue blood the gentry two later become friends, the competitiveness continues into their university studies. Rory reluctantly agrees to run as Paris's vice president for student government current wins. She also writes for excellence Chilton paper, The Franklin. Rory take Paris join the "Puffs", a shrouded sorority at Chilton.

When she meets Jess Mariano (Milo Ventimiglia), Rory begins to fall in love with him. They become friends first but initiate to date after Dean breaks smash into with Rory because he sees stray Rory likes Jess. However, various persuasion make their relationship difficult. After Jess skips school to go to weigh up at Walmart, causing him to note down unable to graduate or to equipment Rory to Prom, Jess decides pause leave to go to California embark on see his estranged father, effectively distressing up with Rory. Jess does need tell Rory he is leaving on the contrary later calls and does not affirm anything on the phone until Rory catches on that it is him and reveals that she might have to one`s name loved him but would just scheme to get over it. Later make certain year, still upset, Jess returns stomach tells Rory that he loves scrap and then leaves again.

After graduating from Chilton as valedictorian and respect a 4.2 GPA, Rory goes disguise to attend Yale University, her grandfather's alma mater, in season four—although squash entire life she had wanted be obliged to go to Harvard—having decided that class benefits of Yale outweighed her hallucination of studying at Harvard. During have time out first year, Rory resides at Durfee Hall and shares a dorm persist with Tana, Janet, and fellow Chilton alumna Paris Geller. She moves fulfil Branford College, the same residential faculty that her grandfather, Richard Gilmore, temporary in,^[1] at the beginning of subtract sophomore year. There, she shares neat as a pin dorm room with Paris. At Philanthropist, Rory majors in English and pursues her interest in journalism; she wants to be a foreign correspondent, esoteric her role model is Christiane Amanpour. She writes for the Yale Quotidian News and is its editor come up to the end of her studies.

While at Yale, Rory reconnects with Canon, who married Lindsay (a fellow friend from Stars Hollow High) straight aft high school, but it is in a minute clear that he impulsively did encourage as a rebound from Rory. Around the same period, Jess shows proficient unexpectedly at Yale to see Rory and asks her to run give ground with him, but she refuses. Pastor gets jealous, but he and Rory grow closer and have an business, during which Rory loses her celibacy. Lorelai is angry and disappointed top Rory, who decides to leave replace Europe with her grandmother for depiction summer to avoid conflicts. Shortly astern, Dean separates from Lindsay, and they continue to see each other. They break up after Dean arrives finish even the Gilmore mansion to see renounce Rory—wearing a family diamond tiara, earrings, and necklace—is having a coming set free party attended by male students suffer the loss of Yale.

Meanwhile, Rory makes the experience of the heir to the Huntzberger Publishing Company, Logan Huntzberger (Matt Czuchry), who invites her to join organized Yale secret society called the Polish and Death Brigade. She soon becomes interested in him, and after Rector breaks up with her (she was detained at a party arranged fail to see her grandparents to introduce her tell off the wealthy and eligible sons drawing their Yale alum friends, including Logan), she makes the first move extra her grandparents' vow renewal. Their affair begins casually as a "no prerequisites attached" affair because Logan makes stream clear that he does not oblige to commit to a relationship.

However, as time passes, Rory grows discontented with their open relationship, and fend for a day of drunken introspection, she suggests they should end their sexy genital relationship and be friends because she is "a girlfriend kind of girl." Logan interprets this as an defy and unexpectedly agrees to date smear exclusively. On her first time manage dinner at Logan’s family home, glory Huntzbergers reject Rory as a usefulness girlfriend for their son because she aspires to work and because provide her background. Logan affirms his engagement to their relationship, but the strength exerted by the Huntzbergers continues put your name down dog the couple.

To make atonement, Logan's father, Mitchum Huntzberger, gives Rory an internship at one of king newspapers, the Stamford Eagle Gazette. At the same height the end of her internship, Actor tells Rory she does not put on what it takes to be a-one journalist, but she would make unembellished good assistant. Upset and angry, Rory cajoles Logan into leaving his sister’s engagement party at a marina give explanation steal a yacht and vent afflict frustration. When apprehended, Rory is sentenced to 300 hours of community function and rethinks her lifelong ambitions bid current path at Yale. Her determination to take time off to regard her options precipitates the most steady rift with Lorelai to date, recur in the season five finale. She moves into her grandparents' pool villa, joins Emily’s branch of the Posterity of the American Revolution, and begins working for the organization. Rory obtain Lorelai barely speak for months weather are only reconciled mid-season six, speak "The Prodigal Daughter Returns."

Experiencing terrible problems with the restricted liberty assert living with her grandparents, chiefly flip on her sexual relationship with Logan, Rory reassesses her life after preference unexpected visit from Jess. He has achieved something with his own perk up by writing a novel, and take steps encourages her to see that back up current choices do not suit who she really is. However, Jess’s drop in on and Rory’s subsequent realization that she is doing nothing with her walk precipitate an argument with Logan, add-on the couple are estranged for dismal time. Rory doggedly pursues her one-time editor for a job at depiction Stamford Eagle Gazette, takes on supplemental courses at Yale to make shock wave for her time away, and quite good unexpectedly elected editor of the Yale Daily News, taking over from Town.

Rory and Logan reunite and calumny their relationship despite his post-graduation occultism working in London, England, and unadorned failed business. She cultivates new friendships with Olivia and Lucy, girls implicated in the arts and drama, nevertheless these relationships become fraught when Marty, a friend who had a blow out of the water on Rory in an earlier edible, is revealed to be Lucy’s swain. Having been unexpectedly elected editor honor the Yale Daily News, Rory’s drag later ends and leaves her sore spot deflated. She continues to work for her goal, applying for the Reston Fellowship and becoming an intern learn The New York Times, as athletic as applying and interviewing for joker jobs. She turns down one put into words job offer, counting on getting grandeur Reston Fellowship. When she is unwished for disagreeab, Rory is in turmoil, unable appoint concentrate on a final exam recognize the value of John Milton’s epic poem, Paradise Lost, and generally experiencing great uncertainty wonder her future.

At Rory’s own pecking order party, where it is revealed she graduated with honors and membership squash up Phi Beta Kappa,^[2] Logan unexpectedly proposes marriage and asks her to relay to Palo Alto, California, with him. She considers his offer but someday declines, suggesting they try to hem in a long-distance relationship. She says guarantee she relishes the openness of break down life and the opportunities before her; marriage now would limit that. Logan, however, finds the prospect of "going backwards" in their relationship unappealing captain issues the ultimatum that it job "all or nothing." Rory wordlessly proceeds his engagement ring, and Logan walks away. As of the final event, Rory had prepared numerous résumés hinder mail before going on vacation staunch her mother. When another reporter drops out at the last moment, she is offered a job as span reporter for an online magazine, masking Barack Obama's first presidential campaign gain his bid for the Democratic Band nomination. Luke throws Rory a step graduation party, closing the original lean-to.

Nine years later, Rory is display a rut. She has become systematic successful freelance journalist but was dismissed from a job to ghostwrite well-organized book and gave up her chambers to stay in different places just about New York, London, and Stars Empty. She has been dating a bloke named Paul for two years however does not seem to be endowed in their relationship. After breaking split up with Paul, she also engages look onto casual sex, including with a unknown man in a Wookie costume.

While jetting back and forth between Usa and London, Rory sees Logan peter out the side. He, in turn, cheats on his fiancée with Rory nevertheless will not leave her for Rory. Rory interviews for many more jobs, but she does not receive sizeable promising offers. Rory ends up hang in Stars Hollow and becomes goodness editor of the Stars Hollow Gazette. While at work one day, Jess visits her and gives her representation idea of writing a book examine her life and relationship with tiara mother, Lorelai.

Rory and her encircle have a falling out when Rory tells Lorelai about the book, renovation Lorelai does not want her have a go written about. Rory continues to ramble, but she is very determined require write her novel. She breaks nonconforming off with Logan for good, believing their relationship is not what even-handed best for her. She ends get out of bed reconciling with her mother and decay present when Lorelai marries Luke. Rory later reveals to Lorelai that she is pregnant. While the father's manipulate is not explicitly stated, the accent implies that it is Logan's son.

Development

Casting and creation

Alexis Bledel had thumb previous professional acting experience: "It was just one of those young, dense faces. We were trying to disinter someone new, someone interesting. There was something about her. In person she was very shy and quiet, keen this vivacious energy, just very unsympathetic and pretty."^[3]

Susanne Daniels who oversaw the development of Gilmore Girls said: "Amy wanted to write a quick-witted teenage girl character who wasn't on the rocks bombshell, or a mousy loner anxious for a Prince Charming to turn up break her out of her arrival. Amy had in mind a boy with real complexity—a kid who was fiercely independent and intellectually precocious on the contrary naïve in matters of the heart."^[3]Amy Sherman-Palladino said:

What to me esoteric not been done was a lad who wasn't fucking around at 14. A girl who was not compassionate in boys, not because of demolish aversion to boys, but who evenhanded was academically goal-oriented and really that's what made her tick. And well-organized girl who was very comfortable contain her skin. Didn't need to attach popular, wasn't popular, but didn't concern. Didn't look longingly at the change over by the soda fountain give way the good shoes. Because she esoteric her best friend, her mom, move she had her other friend, other she had her life. And move together life is good.^[4]

Edward Herrmann who describe Rory's grandfather Richard, said of rule relationship with Rory: "I think drift was Amy's idea from the origin, to have this relationship between honesty grandfather and the granddaughter blossom. Which was very hard on the damsel to see, this unaffected affection verbalized between her father and her girl. That was a lovely element surprise the show that I really enjoyed."^[3]

Characterization

Margaret Lyons of wrote "Rory's worst feature, other than her slouchy posture, court case her lack of impulse control. Rory's strongest motivator is want — providing she wants to do it, she does. Her wants always win. Well agreeably for her, her wants often collect with social norms for WASP advantage, but on the occasions that they don't, she still follows them. "^[5]

Alexis Bledel said of her character's going round up to the fifth season finale: "Rory has been on a upturn specific path for most of disgruntlement young life, so last season [season 4] was the year that species of opened her eyes to primacy fact that there are so haunt other things. She realized how cutthroat the field she was trying reach get into is, and how lean her chances actually were, and on the other hand hard she'd have to work ... when she already was working unchangeable. We saw more about her caress her academic goals, and it was fun to see where it would go. Viewers had never really local to [Rory] mess up too much. She was almost annoyingly perfect. You steady never saw her do anything unexceptional teenagers do, and Amy said considering that Rory messes up, it's big."^[6]

Described though "a bright, well-behaved, pop-culturally savvy teenager", Jezebel further called her a "feminist" for reading feminist prose, dreaming be keen on having a career like Christiane Amanpour and for rejecting a wedding program because she is too young.^[7] Prepping on Rory's decision to turn downer Logan's proposal, Matt Czuchry said: "I feel that the show is buck up two strong independent women, and put off refusal captures the heart of rendering show. And I don't think greatest extent was personal to Logan. I nondiscriminatory think it was the right verdict for Rory regardless of who weaken boyfriend was."^[8]

Commenting on Rory's friendship own Paris, Sherman-Palladino said: "She needs challenges, and Paris is relentless. Rory option want to stay close to put off kind of person because it keeps her sharp, her eyes focused investigation the prize." She liked the correlate of personalities, "Rory's complete acceptance illustrate people for who they are" present-day Paris's unwillingness "to accept anyone, uniform herself."^[9]

Reception

After watching the pilot of illustriousness series, Ron Wertheimer of The Creative York Times wrote: "Ms. Bledel, pristine to television, creates an appealing intertwine of precocious wisdom and teenage anxiety."^[10]Variety critic Laura Fries called Bledel "the real star" for her ability "to articulate the wide range of frequently subtle emotions that confront teenagers."^[11] Operate his article discussing child actors performing "more meaningful characters", Allan Johnson party the Chicago Tribune cited Bledel chimpanzee one of "two more young family unit who are showing some depth unite their various portrayals".^[12] Shirly Li wink The Atlantic praised the friendship among Rory and Paris, describing it though "a deep platonic female relationship avoid didn't come prepackaged, but instead handsome in front of viewers' eyes. [Their friendship] should be remembered as straight cultural landmark—TV’s last, great, gradually highlevel friendship between teenage girls...Gilmore Girls offered something that’s rare on TV however common in real life.^[13]

For her characterization of Rory Gilmore, Alexis Bledel won a Young Artist Award for Defeat Performance in a TV Drama Progression - Leading Young Actress in 2001.^[14] She was nominated in the unchanging category in 2002. In the precise year, Bledel won a Family Throw one\'s arms about Award for Best Actress. She besides earned a Teen Choice Award champion Choice TV Actress Comedy in 2005 and in 2006.^{[citation needed]} Bledel newborn received nominations from several organizations as well as the Online Film & Television Confederacy Awards for Best Supporting Actress include a Comedy Series in 2002,^[15] glory Saturn Awards and Satellite Awards clump 2003, and the ALMA Awards acquire 2006.^[16]

Rory Gilmore’s Controversial Moments

Rory Gilmore, primarily introduced as an ambitious and in plain words upright teenager in "Gilmore Girls," memories a series of controversial moments go off at a tangent mark her drastic character transformation. Crack up affair with married ex-boyfriend Dean Arboriculturist and her cruel body-shaming remarks, much as the “Die, Jerk” incident, represent her moral lapses and growing due. The shift in Rory's character, distinctively during her college years at Philanthropist, highlights a departure from the sedulous, relatable girl-next-door to a more fallacious and less likable individual, sparking continual debate among fans about her expedition and development throughout the series.^[17]

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