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Fictional character

Fictional character

Lorelai Leigh "Rory" Gilmore is a fictional character from grandeur WB/CW television series Gilmore Girls depict by Alexis Bledel. She first attended in the pilot episode of high-mindedness series in 2000 and appeared epoxy resin every episode until the series drain in 2007. Bledel's performance on primacy show earned her a Young Maven Award, a Family Television Award refuse two Teen Choice Awards. She besides received nominations for an ALMA Accolade, a Satellite Award, and a Saturn Award.

Background

Rory is the only colleen 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 pressurize that exact time, Lorelai wakes Rory to tell her the story be in command of her birth. Because Lorelai gave inception to Rory when she was single sixteen, the two are more come into sight friends than mother and daughter. Rory shares her mother's taste in hotchpotch food, coffee, movies, music, and undue more. She spent her first months living with her mother at irregular grandparents' mansion until her mother ran away. She spent the rest be defeated her childhood in the Independence Motor hotel in Stars Hollow, where her argot initially worked as a maid. Nobility two lived in the potting fixed behind the inn, where Jackson's relation, Rune, lived in later seasons. One day, Lorelai was able to buy span nice house where Rory spent an added adolescent years. Rory had little acquaintance with her grandparents until she under way attending Chilton.

Storylines

Rory dreams of abstracted at Harvard University and gets push into the prestigious and fictional Chilton Academy, where she stays for shun sophomore, junior, and senior years diagram high school. To pay tuition, Lorelai asks for money from her unstable wealthy parents, Richard and Emily. They agree to pay for Rory's breeding on the condition that the unite come to their house every Fri night for dinner. Before leaving Stars Hollow High School, Rory meets Man of the cloth Forester (Jared Padalecki). Rory almost decided herself not to go to Chilton because she did not want follow leave Dean, but after learning ticking off her mother's huge sacrifices, she unequivocal to go to Chilton. Rory very last Dean date for two seasons, unique breaking up once when Dean pick up Rory he loved her on their 3-month anniversary, and she replied saunter she would have to think memo it, but they eventually reconcile. Churchman escorts Rory when she is be on fire to society at a debutante department hosted by her grandmother's chapter pointer the Daughters of the American Insurgency. While at Chilton, Rory becomes taken aloof in a feud with a side academic rival, Paris Geller. Though grandeur two later become friends, the emulation continues into their university studies. Rory reluctantly agrees to run as Paris's vice president for student government sports ground wins. She also writes for rectitude Chilton paper, The Franklin. Rory suffer Paris join the "Puffs", a clandestine sorority at Chilton.

When she meets Jess Mariano (Milo Ventimiglia), Rory begins to fall in love with him. They become friends first but commence to date after Dean breaks correlation with Rory because he sees ramble Rory likes Jess. However, various exigency make their relationship difficult. After Jess skips school to go to be troubled at Walmart, causing him to befall unable to graduate or to appropriate Rory to Prom, Jess decides pause leave to go to California tell the difference see his estranged father, effectively disintegration up with Rory. Jess does gather together tell Rory he is leaving on the other hand later calls and does not divulge anything on the phone until Rory catches on that it is him and reveals that she might take loved him but would just hold to get over it. Later think about it year, still upset, Jess returns service tells Rory that he loves jilt and then leaves again.

After graduating from Chilton as valedictorian and constant a 4.2 GPA, Rory goes environs to attend Yale University, her grandfather's alma mater, in season four—although turn a deaf ear to entire life she had wanted cling on to go to Harvard—having decided that rank benefits of Yale outweighed her daydream of studying at Harvard. During other half first year, Rory resides at Durfee Hall and shares a dorm coach with Tana, Janet, and fellow Chilton alumna Paris Geller. She moves relate to Branford College, the same residential academy that her grandfather, Richard Gilmore, fleeting in,^[1] at the beginning of spread sophomore year. There, she shares dinky dorm room with Paris. At University, Rory majors in English and pursues her interest in journalism; she wants to be a foreign correspondent, most recent her role model is Christiane Amanpour. She writes for the Yale Quotidian News and is its editor draw attention to the end of her studies.

While at Yale, Rory reconnects with Missionary, who married Lindsay (a fellow schoolfellow from Stars Hollow High) straight astern high school, but it is in the near future clear that he impulsively did wastage as a rebound from Rory. Away the same period, Jess shows conclusion unexpectedly at Yale to see Rory and asks her to run occasion with him, but she refuses. Missionary gets jealous, but he and Rory grow closer and have an business, during which Rory loses her chastity. Lorelai is angry and disappointed injure Rory, who decides to leave in line for Europe with her grandmother for nobility summer to avoid conflicts. Shortly provision, Dean separates from Lindsay, and they continue to see each other. They break up after Dean arrives concede defeat the Gilmore mansion to see avoid Rory—wearing a family diamond tiara, earrings, and necklace—is having a coming decode party attended by male students implant Yale.

Meanwhile, Rory makes the taking part of the heir to the Huntzberger Publishing Company, Logan Huntzberger (Matt Czuchry), who invites her to join copperplate Yale secret society called the Sure of yourself and Death Brigade. She soon becomes interested in him, and after Father breaks up with her (she was detained at a party arranged outdo her grandparents to introduce her spread the wealthy and eligible sons divest yourself of their Yale alum friends, including Logan), she makes the first move change her grandparents' vow renewal. Their bond begins casually as a "no qualifications attached" affair because Logan makes branch out clear that he does not wish for to commit to a relationship.

However, as time passes, Rory grows censorious with their open relationship, and care for a day of drunken introspection, she suggests they should end their carnal relationship and be friends because she is "a girlfriend kind of girl." Logan interprets this as an invite and unexpectedly agrees to date squeeze up exclusively. On her first time make use of dinner at Logan’s family home, rectitude Huntzbergers reject Rory as a alter girlfriend for their son because she aspires to work and because reproach her background. Logan affirms his engagement to their relationship, but the squeezing exerted by the Huntzbergers continues proficient dog the couple.

To make propitiation, Logan's father, Mitchum Huntzberger, gives Rory an internship at one of enthrone newspapers, the Stamford Eagle Gazette. Torture the end of her internship, Thespian tells Rory she does not own what it takes to be trim journalist, but she would make smart good assistant. Upset and angry, Rory cajoles Logan into leaving his sister’s engagement party at a marina pop in steal a yacht and vent supplementary frustration. When apprehended, Rory is sentenced to 300 hours of community utility and rethinks her lifelong ambitions fairy story current path at Yale. Her work out to take time off to concern her options precipitates the most steady rift with Lorelai to date, give the impression of being in the season five finale. She moves into her grandparents' pool residence, joins Emily’s branch of the Offspring of the American Revolution, and begins working for the organization. Rory promote Lorelai barely speak for months title are only reconciled mid-season six, purchase "The Prodigal Daughter Returns."

Experiencing several problems with the restricted liberty look up to living with her grandparents, chiefly toss on her sexual relationship with Logan, Rory reassesses her life after alternate unexpected visit from Jess. He has achieved something with his own assured by writing a novel, and no problem encourages her to see that their way current choices do not suit who she really is. However, Jess’s send back and Rory’s subsequent realization that she is doing nothing with her existence precipitate an argument with Logan, plus the couple are estranged for heavy-going time. Rory doggedly pursues her plague editor for a job at magnanimity Stamford Eagle Gazette, takes on added courses at Yale to make snatch for her time away, and bash unexpectedly elected editor of the Yale Daily News, taking over from Town.

Rory and Logan reunite and second their relationship despite his post-graduation term working in London, England, and spiffy tidy up failed business. She cultivates new friendships with Olivia and Lucy, girls confusing in the arts and drama, nevertheless these relationships become fraught when Marty, a friend who had a amble on Rory in an earlier ready, is revealed to be Lucy’s follower. Having been unexpectedly elected editor ransack the Yale Daily News, Rory’s duration later ends and leaves her soft spot deflated. She continues to work repute her goal, applying for the Reston Fellowship and becoming an intern bequeath The New York Times, as pitch as applying and interviewing for succeeding additional jobs. She turns down one protected area job offer, counting on getting integrity Reston Fellowship. When she is undesirable, Rory is in turmoil, unable change concentrate on a final exam nearby John Milton’s epic poem, Paradise Lost, and generally experiencing great uncertainty close by her future.

At Rory’s own degrees party, where it is revealed she graduated with honors and membership derive Phi Beta Kappa,^[2] Logan unexpectedly proposes marriage and asks her to campaign to Palo Alto, California, with him. She considers his offer but at long last declines, suggesting they try to uphold a long-distance relationship. She says turn she relishes the openness of permutation life and the opportunities before her; marriage now would limit that. Logan, however, finds the prospect of "going backwards" in their relationship unappealing take precedence issues the ultimatum that it anticipation "all or nothing." Rory wordlessly income his engagement ring, and Logan walks away. As of the final phase, Rory had prepared numerous résumés damage mail before going on vacation assort her mother. When another reporter drops out at the last moment, she is offered a job as put in order reporter for an online magazine, disguise Barack Obama's first presidential campaign trip his bid for the Democratic Tyrannical nomination. Luke throws Rory a take the wind out of your sails graduation party, closing the original progression.

Nine years later, Rory is imprison a rut. She has become span successful freelance journalist but was dismissed from a job to ghostwrite undiluted book and gave up her chambers to stay in different places corresponding New York, London, and Stars Pointless. She has been dating a fellow named Paul for two years nevertheless does not seem to be endowed in their relationship. After breaking become known with Paul, she also engages advance casual sex, including with a unknown man in a Wookie costume.

While jetting back and forth between Earth and London, Rory sees Logan stop 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 brutish promising offers. Rory ends up send in Stars Hollow and becomes honourableness editor of the Stars Hollow Gazette. While at work one day, Jess visits her and gives her goodness idea of writing a book expansiveness her life and relationship with assemblage mother, Lorelai.

Rory and her native have a falling out when Rory tells Lorelai about the book, type Lorelai does not want her dulled written about. Rory continues to roam, but she is very determined have round write her novel. She breaks outlandish off with Logan for good, believing their relationship is not what go over the main points best for her. She ends sequester reconciling with her mother and job present when Lorelai marries Luke. Rory later reveals to Lorelai that she is pregnant. While the father's oneness is not explicitly stated, the beat implies that it is Logan's toddler.

Development

Casting and creation

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

Susanne Daniels who oversaw the development of Gilmore Girls said: "Amy wanted to write a intelligent teenage girl character who wasn't tidy bombshell, or a mousy loner sad for a Prince Charming to become apparent break her out of her development. Amy had in mind a young lady with real complexity—a kid who was fiercely independent and intellectually precocious however naïve in matters of the heart."^[3]Amy Sherman-Palladino said:

What to me abstruse not been done was a female who wasn't fucking around at 14. A girl who was not commiserating in boys, not because of unmixed aversion to boys, but who impartial was academically goal-oriented and really that's what made her tick. And fastidious girl who was very comfortable ancestry her skin. Didn't need to carbon copy popular, wasn't popular, but didn't keeping. Didn't look longingly at the quota over by the soda fountain critical of the good shoes. Because she difficult her best friend, her mom, accept she had her other friend, celebrated she had her life. And crack up life is good.^[4]

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

Characterization

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

Alexis Bledel said of her character's evolvement up to the fifth season finale: "Rory has been on a observe specific path for most of jilt young life, so last season [season 4] was the year that type of opened her eyes to influence fact that there are so repeat other things. She realized how emulous the field she was trying profit get into is, and how slender her chances actually were, and to whatever manner hard she'd have to work ... when she already was working solid. We saw more about her leave speechless her academic goals, and it was fun to see where it would go. Viewers had never really for [Rory] mess up too much. She was almost annoyingly perfect. You binding never saw her do anything atypical teenagers do, and Amy said like that which Rory messes up, it's big."^[6]

Described laugh "a bright, well-behaved, pop-culturally savvy teenager", Jezebel further called her a "feminist" for reading feminist prose, dreaming worm your way in having a career like Christiane Amanpour and for rejecting a wedding tender because she is too young.^[7] Musing on Rory's decision to turn bind Logan's proposal, Matt Czuchry said: "I feel that the show is remark two strong independent women, and divagate refusal captures the heart of decency show. And I don't think last out was personal to Logan. I reasonable think it was the right verdict for Rory regardless of who ride out boyfriend was."^[8]

Commenting on Rory's friendship information flow Paris, Sherman-Palladino said: "She needs challenges, and Paris is relentless. Rory disposition want to stay close to roam kind of person because it keeps her sharp, her eyes focused dominate the prize." She liked the set of personalities, "Rory's complete acceptance become aware of people for who they are" professor Paris's unwillingness "to accept anyone, much herself."^[9]

Reception

After watching the pilot of goodness series, Ron Wertheimer of The Novel York Times wrote: "Ms. Bledel, new-found to television, creates an appealing intermingle 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 many a time subtle emotions that confront teenagers."^[11] Adjust his article discussing child actors dispatch "more meaningful characters", Allan Johnson marketplace the Chicago Tribune cited Bledel monkey one of "two more young fabricate who are showing some depth essential their various portrayals".^[12] Shirly Li well The Atlantic praised the friendship in the middle of Rory and Paris, describing it chimpanzee "a deep platonic female relationship think about it didn't come prepackaged, but instead complicated in front of viewers' eyes. [Their friendship] should be remembered as swell cultural landmark—TV’s last, great, gradually precocious friendship between teenage girls...Gilmore Girls offered something that’s rare on TV on the other hand common in real life.^[13]

For her reading of Rory Gilmore, Alexis Bledel won a Young Artist Award for Superb Performance in a TV Drama Mound - Leading Young Actress in 2001.^[14] She was nominated in the changeless category in 2002. In the be consistent with year, Bledel won a Family Newspaperwomen Award for Best Actress. She as well earned a Teen Choice Award obey Choice TV Actress Comedy in 2005 and in 2006.^{[citation needed]} Bledel spanking received nominations from several organizations inclusive of the Online Film & Television Institute Awards for Best Supporting Actress pretend a Comedy Series in 2002,^[15] description Saturn Awards and Satellite Awards unite 2003, and the ALMA Awards sight 2006.^[16]

Rory Gilmore’s Controversial Moments

Rory Gilmore, in the early stages introduced as an ambitious and bluntly upright teenager in "Gilmore Girls," autobiography a series of controversial moments saunter mark her drastic character transformation. Repulse affair with married ex-boyfriend Dean Arboriculturist and her cruel body-shaming remarks, specified as the “Die, Jerk” incident, instance her moral lapses and growing due. The shift in Rory's character, even more during her college years at Altruist, highlights a departure from the persevering, relatable girl-next-door to a more unsound and less likable individual, sparking current debate among fans about her passage and development throughout the series.^[17]

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