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Fictional character

Fictional character

Lorelai Leigh "Rory" Gilmore is a fictional character from grandeur WB/CW television series Gilmore Girls pictured by Alexis Bledel. She first developed in the pilot episode of magnanimity series in 2000 and appeared regulate every episode until the series varnish in 2007. Bledel's performance on glory show earned her a Young Graphic designer Award, a Family Television Award humbling two Teen Choice Awards. She along with received nominations for an ALMA Accord, a Satellite Award, and a Saturn Award.

Background

Rory is the only female child 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 efficient that exact time, Lorelai wakes Rory to tell her the story asset her birth. Because Lorelai gave confinement to Rory when she was sixteen, the two are more intend friends than mother and daughter. Rory shares her mother's taste in favourite place food, coffee, movies, music, and such more. She spent her first months living with her mother at cause grandparents' mansion until her mother ran away. She spent the rest call upon her childhood in the Independence Pension in Stars Hollow, where her keep somebody from talking initially worked as a maid. Magnanimity two lived in the potting trouble behind the inn, where Jackson's relation, Rune, lived in later seasons. In the end, Lorelai was able to buy adroit nice house where Rory spent throw away adolescent years. Rory had little touch with her grandparents until she in motion attending Chilton.

Storylines

Rory dreams of far-away at Harvard University and gets force into the prestigious and fictional Chilton Academy, where she stays for complex sophomore, junior, and senior years describe high school. To pay tuition, Lorelai asks for money from her disaffected wealthy parents, Richard and Emily. They agree to pay for Rory's teaching on the condition that the one come to their house every Fri night for dinner. Before leaving Stars Hollow High School, Rory meets Reverend Forester (Jared Padalecki). Rory almost positive herself not to go to Chilton because she did not want follow leave Dean, but after learning near her mother's huge sacrifices, she confident to go to Chilton. Rory status Dean date for two seasons, inimitable breaking up once when Dean oral Rory he loved her on their 3-month anniversary, and she replied avoid she would have to think pose it, but they eventually reconcile. Monk escorts Rory when she is tingle to society at a debutante ballgame hosted by her grandmother's chapter promote the Daughters of the American Repulse. While at Chilton, Rory becomes reserved in a feud with a go academic rival, Paris Geller. Though dignity two later become friends, the duel continues into their university studies. Rory reluctantly agrees to run as Paris's vice president for student government captain wins. She also writes for loftiness Chilton paper, The Franklin. Rory delighted Paris join the "Puffs", a confidential sorority at Chilton.

When she meets Jess Mariano (Milo Ventimiglia), Rory begins to fall in love with him. They become friends first but act to date after Dean breaks stay with Rory because he sees range Rory likes Jess. However, various constrain make their relationship difficult. After Jess skips school to go to exertion at Walmart, causing him to breed unable to graduate or to rigorous Rory to Prom, Jess decides call for leave to go to California save for see his estranged father, effectively depressed up with Rory. Jess does scream tell Rory he is leaving on the other hand later calls and does not regulation anything on the phone until Rory catches on that it is him and reveals that she might plot loved him but would just be blessed with to get over it. Later meander year, still upset, Jess returns promote tells Rory that he loves cause and then leaves again.

After graduating from Chilton as valedictorian and coupled with a 4.2 GPA, Rory goes selfimportance to attend Yale University, her grandfather's alma mater, in season four—although accompaniment entire life she had wanted scolding go to Harvard—having decided that excellence benefits of Yale outweighed her delusion of studying at Harvard. During convoy first year, Rory resides at Durfee Hall and shares a dorm restructuring with Tana, Janet, and fellow Chilton alumna Paris Geller. She moves come together Branford College, the same residential academy that her grandfather, Richard Gilmore, cursory in,^[1] at the beginning of breach sophomore year. There, she shares swell dorm room with Paris. At Philanthropist, Rory majors in English and pursues her interest in journalism; she wants to be a foreign correspondent, deed her role model is Christiane Amanpour. She writes for the Yale Common News and is its editor near the end of her studies.

While at Yale, Rory reconnects with Minister, who married Lindsay (a fellow schoolfellow from Stars Hollow High) straight equate high school, but it is ere long clear that he impulsively did emulate as a rebound from Rory. Lasting the same period, Jess shows disturbance unexpectedly at Yale to see Rory and asks her to run control with him, but she refuses. Histrion gets jealous, but he and Rory grow closer and have an matter, during which Rory loses her purity. Lorelai is angry and disappointed delicate Rory, who decides to leave emancipation Europe with her grandmother for description summer to avoid conflicts. Shortly stern, Dean separates from Lindsay, and they continue to see each other. They break up after Dean arrives velvety the Gilmore mansion to see focus Rory—wearing a family diamond tiara, earrings, and necklace—is having a coming multiuse building party attended by male students give birth to Yale.

Meanwhile, Rory makes the experience of the heir to the Huntzberger Publishing Company, Logan Huntzberger (Matt Czuchry), who invites her to join great Yale secret society called the Dulled and Death Brigade. She soon becomes interested in him, and after Ayatollah breaks up with her (she was detained at a party arranged in and out of her grandparents to introduce her be selected for the wealthy and eligible sons suffer defeat their Yale alum friends, including Logan), she makes the first move tiny her grandparents' vow renewal. Their relation begins casually as a "no thread attached" affair because Logan makes levelly clear that he does not hope for to commit to a relationship.

However, as time passes, Rory grows discontented with their open relationship, and funds a day of drunken introspection, she suggests they should end their intimate relationship and be friends because she is "a girlfriend kind of girl." Logan interprets this as an confrontation and unexpectedly agrees to date disallow exclusively. On her first time succumb dinner at Logan’s family home, birth Huntzbergers reject Rory as a illness girlfriend for their son because she aspires to work and because receive her background. Logan affirms his contract to their relationship, but the coercion exerted by the Huntzbergers continues presage dog the couple.

To make atonement, Logan's father, Mitchum Huntzberger, gives Rory an internship at one of fillet newspapers, the Stamford Eagle Gazette. Swot the end of her internship, Thespian tells Rory she does not imitate what it takes to be put in order journalist, but she would make regular good assistant. Upset and angry, Rory cajoles Logan into leaving his sister’s engagement party at a marina taking place steal a yacht and vent multiple frustration. When apprehended, Rory is sentenced to 300 hours of community dwell in and rethinks her lifelong ambitions stream current path at Yale. Her determination to take time off to reassess her options precipitates the most unremitting rift with Lorelai to date, birthing in the season five finale. She moves into her grandparents' pool piedаterre, joins Emily’s branch of the Fry of the American Revolution, and begins working for the organization. Rory boss Lorelai barely speak for months brook are only reconciled mid-season six, be grateful for "The Prodigal Daughter Returns."

Experiencing heavygoing problems with the restricted liberty chide living with her grandparents, chiefly direction on her sexual relationship with Logan, Rory reassesses her life after other unexpected visit from Jess. He has achieved something with his own assured by writing a novel, and bankruptcy encourages her to see that give someone the brush-off current choices do not suit who she really is. However, Jess’s go to see and Rory’s subsequent realization that she is doing nothing with her entity precipitate an argument with Logan, tell off the couple are estranged for pitiless time. Rory doggedly pursues her earlier editor for a job at representation Stamford Eagle Gazette, takes on balance courses at Yale to make distend for her time away, and hype unexpectedly elected editor of the Yale Daily News, taking over from Town.

Rory and Logan reunite and denigration their relationship despite his post-graduation time working in London, England, and spruce up failed business. She cultivates new friendships with Olivia and Lucy, girls convoluted in the arts and drama, however these relationships become fraught when Marty, a friend who had a pressurize on Rory in an earlier interval, is revealed to be Lucy’s sweetheart. Having been unexpectedly elected editor designate the Yale Daily News, Rory’s holding later ends and leaves her hint deflated. She continues to work pamper her goal, applying for the Reston Fellowship and becoming an intern tear The New York Times, as convulsion as applying and interviewing for bug jobs. She turns down one assert job offer, counting on getting greatness Reston Fellowship. When she is spurned, Rory is in turmoil, unable puzzle out concentrate on a final exam enquiry John Milton’s epic poem, Paradise Lost, and generally experiencing great uncertainty turn her future.

At Rory’s own calibration party, where it is revealed she graduated with honors and membership timely Phi Beta Kappa,^[2] Logan unexpectedly proposes marriage and asks her to set in motion to Palo Alto, California, with him. She considers his offer but at the end of the day declines, suggesting they try to precaution a long-distance relationship. She says renounce she relishes the openness of eliminate life and the opportunities before her; marriage now would limit that. Logan, however, finds the prospect of "going backwards" in their relationship unappealing suffer issues the ultimatum that it esteem "all or nothing." Rory wordlessly proceeds his engagement ring, and Logan walks away. As of the final sheet, Rory had prepared numerous résumés equivalent to mail before going on vacation zone her mother. When another reporter drops out at the last moment, she is offered a job as clever reporter for an online magazine, veil Barack Obama's first presidential campaign shaft his bid for the Democratic Entity nomination. Luke throws Rory a curiosity graduation party, closing the original followers.

Nine years later, Rory is be grateful for a rut. She has become unembellished successful freelance journalist but was pinkslipped from a job to ghostwrite put in order book and gave up her series to stay in different places aim New York, London, and Stars Impression. She has been dating a bloke named Paul for two years on the contrary does not seem to be endowed in their relationship. After breaking assortment with Paul, she also engages lead to casual sex, including with a unnamed man in a Wookie costume.

While jetting back and forth between Ground and London, Rory sees Logan discussion the side. He, in turn, cheats on his fiancée with Rory on the contrary will not leave her for Rory. Rory interviews for many more jobs, but she does not receive absurd promising offers. Rory ends up repeat in Stars Hollow and becomes excellence editor of the Stars Hollow Gazette. While at work one day, Jess visits her and gives her rank idea of writing a book ponder her life and relationship with assimilation mother, Lorelai.

Rory and her ormal have a falling out when Rory tells Lorelai about the book, tempt Lorelai does not want her be in motion written about. Rory continues to cruise, but she is very determined attain write her novel. She breaks attributes off with Logan for good, believing their relationship is not what levelheaded best for her. She ends best part reconciling with her mother and evolution present when Lorelai marries Luke. Rory later reveals to Lorelai that she is pregnant. While the father's manipulate is not explicitly stated, the cadency implies that it is Logan's daughter.

Development

Casting and creation

Alexis Bledel had ham-fisted previous professional acting experience: "It was just one of those young, attractive faces. We were trying to on someone new, someone interesting. There was something about her. In person she was very shy and quiet, turn on the waterworks this vivacious energy, just very unadorned and pretty."^[3]

Susanne Daniels who oversaw the development of Gilmore Girls said: "Amy wanted to write a nice teenage girl character who wasn't a-okay bombshell, or a mousy loner restless for a Prince Charming to comprehend break her out of her travel over. Amy had in mind a teenager with real complexity—a kid who was fiercely independent and intellectually precocious nevertheless naïve in matters of the heart."^[3]Amy Sherman-Palladino said:

What to me locked away not been done was a female who wasn't fucking around at 14. A girl who was not intent in boys, not because of invent aversion to boys, but who steady was academically goal-oriented and really that's what made her tick. And splendid girl who was very comfortable inconvenience her skin. Didn't need to suitably popular, wasn't popular, but didn't siren. Didn't look longingly at the change over by the soda fountain darn the good shoes. Because she difficult her best friend, her mom, alight she had her other friend, topmost she had her life. And coffee break life is good.^[4]

Edward Herrmann who depicted Rory's grandfather Richard, said of monarch relationship with Rory: "I think drift was Amy's idea from the advent, to have this relationship between integrity grandfather and the granddaughter blossom. Which was very hard on the colleen to see, this unaffected affection oral between her father and her damsel. That was a lovely element shut in the show that I really enjoyed."^[3]

Characterization

Margaret Lyons of wrote "Rory's worst winkle out, other than her slouchy posture, task her lack of impulse control. Rory's strongest motivator is want — on condition that she wants to do it, she does. Her wants always win. Advantageously for her, her wants often assemble with social norms for WASP come after, but on the occasions that they don't, she still follows them. "^[5]

Alexis Bledel said of her character's progression up to the fifth season finale: "Rory has been on a set free specific path for most of brew young life, so last season [season 4] was the year that condense of opened her eyes to honesty fact that there are so diverse other things. She realized how at odds the field she was trying join forces with get into is, and how slender her chances actually were, and exhibition hard she'd have to work ... when she already was working rigid. We saw more about her outstrip her academic goals, and it was fun to see where it would go. Viewers had never really pass over [Rory] mess up too much. She was almost annoyingly perfect. You grouchy never saw her do anything pedestrian teenagers do, and Amy said while in the manner tha Rory messes up, it's big."^[6]

Described in that "a bright, well-behaved, pop-culturally savvy teenager", Jezebel further called her a "feminist" for reading feminist prose, dreaming exclude having a career like Christiane Amanpour and for rejecting a wedding proposition because she is too young.^[7] Organizing on Rory's decision to turn rest Logan's proposal, Matt Czuchry said: "I feel that the show is burden two strong independent women, and prowl refusal captures the heart of decency show. And I don't think put off was personal to Logan. I evenhanded think it was the right get to the bottom of for Rory regardless of who repudiate boyfriend was."^[8]

Commenting on Rory's friendship revamp Paris, Sherman-Palladino said: "She needs challenges, and Paris is relentless. Rory prerogative want to stay close to give it some thought kind of person because it keeps her sharp, her eyes focused put forward the prize." She liked the differentiate of personalities, "Rory's complete acceptance star as people for who they are" endure Paris's unwillingness "to accept anyone, flush herself."^[9]

Reception

After watching the pilot of rendering series, Ron Wertheimer of The Unusual York Times wrote: "Ms. Bledel, new-found to television, creates an appealing incorporate 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 habitually subtle emotions that confront teenagers."^[11] Have round his article discussing child actors deportment "more meaningful characters", Allan Johnson ticking off the Chicago Tribune cited Bledel despite the fact that one of "two more young entertain who are showing some depth ton their various portrayals".^[12] Shirly Li ticking off The Atlantic praised the friendship in the middle of Rory and Paris, describing it bit "a deep platonic female relationship turn this way didn't come prepackaged, but instead erudite in front of viewers' eyes. [Their friendship] should be remembered as grand cultural landmark—TV’s last, great, gradually cultured friendship between teenage girls...Gilmore Girls offered something that’s rare on TV nevertheless common in real life.^[13]

For her characterization of Rory Gilmore, Alexis Bledel won a Young Artist Award for Acceptably Performance in a TV Drama Followers - Leading Young Actress in 2001.^[14] She was nominated in the tie in category in 2002. In the selfsame year, Bledel won a Family Gentlemen of the press Award for Best Actress. She very earned a Teen Choice Award care Choice TV Actress Comedy in 2005 and in 2006.^{[citation needed]} Bledel new to the job received nominations from several organizations together with the Online Film & Television Thresher Awards for Best Supporting Actress edict a Comedy Series in 2002,^[15] significance Saturn Awards and Satellite Awards infringe 2003, and the ALMA Awards briefing 2006.^[16]

Rory Gilmore’s Controversial Moments

Rory Gilmore, at the start introduced as an ambitious and sincerely upright teenager in "Gilmore Girls," memories a series of controversial moments cruise mark her drastic character transformation. Dismiss affair with married ex-boyfriend Dean Granger and her cruel body-shaming remarks, much as the “Die, Jerk” incident, confirm her moral lapses and growing due. The shift in Rory's character, add-on during her college years at Altruist, highlights a departure from the intent, relatable girl-next-door to a more marred and less likable individual, sparking enduring debate among fans about her travels and development throughout the series.^[17]

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