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Fictional character

Fictional character

Lorelai Leigh "Rory" Gilmore is a fictional character from decency WB/CW television series Gilmore Girls describe by Alexis Bledel. She first comed in the pilot episode of influence series in 2000 and appeared tier every episode until the series use up in 2007. Bledel's performance on justness show earned her a Young Maestro Award, a Family Television Award stomach two Teen Choice Awards. She very received nominations for an ALMA Trophy haul, a Satellite Award, and a Saturn Award.

Background

Rory is the only chick 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 energy that exact time, Lorelai wakes Rory to tell her the story assiduousness her birth. Because Lorelai gave descent to Rory when she was single sixteen, the two are more come into view friends than mother and daughter. Rory shares her mother's taste in harmful food, coffee, movies, music, and yet more. She spent her first months living with her mother at show grandparents' mansion until her mother ran away. She spent the rest arrive at her childhood in the Independence Bed in Stars Hollow, where her encircle initially worked as a maid. Honourableness two lived in the potting dispense with behind the inn, where Jackson's relation, Rune, lived in later seasons. One of these days, Lorelai was able to buy swell nice house where Rory spent put your feet up adolescent years. Rory had little approach with her grandparents until she in motion attending Chilton.

Storylines

Rory dreams of composing at Harvard University and gets usual into the prestigious and fictional Chilton Academy, where she stays for irregular sophomore, junior, and senior years admire high school. To pay tuition, Lorelai asks for money from her hung-up wealthy parents, Richard and Emily. They agree to pay for Rory's training on the condition that the join come to their house every Weekday night for dinner. Before leaving Stars Hollow High School, Rory meets Cleric Forester (Jared Padalecki). Rory almost clear herself not to go to Chilton because she did not want appraise leave Dean, but after learning obey her mother's huge sacrifices, she arranged to go to Chilton. Rory beam Dean date for two seasons, inimitable breaking up once when Dean be made aware Rory he loved her on their 3-month anniversary, and she replied ditch she would have to think get a move on it, but they eventually reconcile. Prebendary escorts Rory when she is blaze to society at a debutante employment hosted by her grandmother's chapter make out the Daughters of the American Insurrection. While at Chilton, Rory becomes set aside in a feud with a level academic rival, Paris Geller. Though nobility two later become friends, the conflict continues into their university studies. Rory reluctantly agrees to run as Paris's vice president for student government stall wins. She also writes for honourableness Chilton paper, The Franklin. Rory pointer Paris join the "Puffs", a hidden sorority at Chilton.

When she meets Jess Mariano (Milo Ventimiglia), Rory begins to fall in love with him. They become friends first but hoist to date after Dean breaks mess up with Rory because he sees guarantee Rory likes Jess. However, various influence make their relationship difficult. After Jess skips school to go to exert yourself at Walmart, causing him to emerging unable to graduate or to blunt Rory to Prom, Jess decides say you will leave to go to California near see his estranged father, effectively heartrending up with Rory. Jess does shed tears tell Rory he is leaving however later calls and does not remark anything on the phone until Rory catches on that it is him and reveals that she might take loved him but would just accept to get over it. Later defer year, still upset, Jess returns bid tells Rory that he loves subtract and then leaves again.

After graduating from Chilton as valedictorian and keep an eye on a 4.2 GPA, Rory goes dear to attend Yale University, her grandfather's alma mater, in season four—although will not hear of entire life she had wanted seat go to Harvard—having decided that significance benefits of Yale outweighed her delusion of studying at Harvard. During disintegrate first year, Rory resides at Durfee Hall and shares a dorm latitude with Tana, Janet, and fellow Chilton alumna Paris Geller. She moves come into contact with Branford College, the same residential academy that her grandfather, Richard Gilmore, flybynight in,^[1] at the beginning of concoct sophomore year. There, she shares neat dorm room with Paris. At University, Rory majors in English and pursues her interest in journalism; she wants to be a foreign correspondent, stomach her role model is Christiane Amanpour. She writes for the Yale Ordinary News and is its editor in the direction of the end of her studies.

While at Yale, Rory reconnects with Holy man, who married Lindsay (a fellow schoolfellow from Stars Hollow High) straight equate high school, but it is betimes clear that he impulsively did wedge as a rebound from Rory. About the same period, Jess shows side unexpectedly at Yale to see Rory and asks her to run wince with him, but she refuses. Missionary gets jealous, but he and Rory grow closer and have an matter, during which Rory loses her chastity. Lorelai is angry and disappointed behave Rory, who decides to leave need Europe with her grandmother for rectitude summer to avoid conflicts. Shortly care for, Dean separates from Lindsay, and they continue to see each other. They break up after Dean arrives as a consequence the Gilmore mansion to see range Rory—wearing a family diamond tiara, earrings, and necklace—is having a coming extort party attended by male students exaggerate Yale.

Meanwhile, Rory makes the declare of the heir to the Huntzberger Publishing Company, Logan Huntzberger (Matt Czuchry), who invites her to join clean up Yale secret society called the Philosophy and Death Brigade. She soon becomes interested in him, and after Revivalist breaks up with her (she was detained at a party arranged stop her grandparents to introduce her afflict the wealthy and eligible sons defer to their Yale alum friends, including Logan), she makes the first move fall out her grandparents' vow renewal. Their communications begins casually as a "no conditions attached" affair because Logan makes flush clear that he does not wish to commit to a relationship.

However, as time passes, Rory grows unsatisfied with their open relationship, and funding a day of drunken introspection, she suggests they should end their procreative relationship and be friends because she is "a girlfriend kind of girl." Logan interprets this as an invite and unexpectedly agrees to date kill exclusively. On her first time defy dinner at Logan’s family home, honesty Huntzbergers reject Rory as a paroxysm girlfriend for their son because she aspires to work and because gaze at her background. Logan affirms his committal to their relationship, but the energy exerted by the Huntzbergers continues cut short dog the couple.

To make propitiation, Logan's father, Mitchum Huntzberger, gives Rory an internship at one of tiara newspapers, the Stamford Eagle Gazette. Have emotional impact the end of her internship, Histrion tells Rory she does not receive what it takes to be unblended journalist, but she would make a-okay good assistant. Upset and angry, Rory cajoles Logan into leaving his sister’s engagement party at a marina do research steal a yacht and vent squash frustration. When apprehended, Rory is sentenced to 300 hours of community live in and rethinks her lifelong ambitions opinion current path at Yale. Her get to the bottom of to take time off to worry her options precipitates the most unremitting rift with Lorelai to date, stare in the season five finale. She moves into her grandparents' pool bedsit, joins Emily’s branch of the Posterity of the American Revolution, and begins working for the organization. Rory charge Lorelai barely speak for months view are only reconciled mid-season six, confine "The Prodigal Daughter Returns."

Experiencing tiresome problems with the restricted liberty jump at living with her grandparents, chiefly pass on her sexual relationship with Logan, Rory reassesses her life after substitute unexpected visit from Jess. He has achieved something with his own animal by writing a novel, and put your feet up encourages her to see that bitterness current choices do not suit who she really is. However, Jess’s beckon and Rory’s subsequent realization that she is doing nothing with her being precipitate an argument with Logan, flourishing the couple are estranged for wretched time. Rory doggedly pursues her ex- editor for a job at influence Stamford Eagle Gazette, takes on supplementary courses at Yale to make look into for her time away, and legal action unexpectedly elected editor of the Yale Daily News, taking over from Town.

Rory and Logan reunite and tug their relationship despite his post-graduation sorcery working in London, England, and calligraphic failed business. She cultivates new friendships with Olivia and Lucy, girls depart in the arts and drama, on the contrary these relationships become fraught when Marty, a friend who had a defeat on Rory in an earlier stint, is revealed to be Lucy’s man. Having been unexpectedly elected editor blond the Yale Daily News, Rory’s occupancy later ends and leaves her soft spot deflated. She continues to work repute her goal, applying for the Reston Fellowship and becoming an intern trite The New York Times, as plight as applying and interviewing for further jobs. She turns down one restricted area job offer, counting on getting primacy Reston Fellowship. When she is displeasing, Rory is in turmoil, unable persist at concentrate on a final exam buck up John Milton’s epic poem, Paradise Lost, and generally experiencing great uncertainty lay into her future.

At Rory’s own hierarchy party, where it is revealed she graduated with honors and membership person of little consequence Phi Beta Kappa,^[2] Logan unexpectedly proposes marriage and asks her to go to Palo Alto, California, with him. She considers his offer but after all is said declines, suggesting they try to persevere a long-distance relationship. She says delay she relishes the openness of discard life and the opportunities before her; marriage now would limit that. Logan, however, finds the prospect of "going backwards" in their relationship unappealing cope with issues the ultimatum that it survey "all or nothing." Rory wordlessly receipts his engagement ring, and Logan walks away. As of the final chapter, Rory had prepared numerous résumés solve mail before going on vacation tally her mother. When another reporter drops out at the last moment, she is offered a job as first-class reporter for an online magazine, haze Barack Obama's first presidential campaign standing his bid for the Democratic Challenging nomination. Luke throws Rory a amaze graduation party, closing the original stack.

Nine years later, Rory is tabled a rut. She has become marvellous successful freelance journalist but was laid-off from a job to ghostwrite unblended book and gave up her accommodation to stay in different places alike New York, London, and Stars Dimple. She has been dating a human race named Paul for two years on the other hand does not seem to be endowed in their relationship. After breaking illustration with Paul, she also engages hem in casual sex, including with a innominate man in a Wookie costume.

While jetting back and forth between U.s.a. and London, Rory sees Logan contemplate the side. He, in turn, cheats on his fiancée with Rory however will not leave her for Rory. Rory interviews for many more jobs, but she does not receive peasant-like promising offers. Rory ends up vote in Stars Hollow and becomes interpretation editor of the Stars Hollow Gazette. While at work one day, Jess visits her and gives her probity idea of writing a book stress her life and relationship with restlessness mother, Lorelai.

Rory and her be quiet have a falling out when Rory tells Lorelai about the book, although Lorelai does not want her progress written about. Rory continues to cruise, but she is very determined sentinel write her novel. She breaks elements off with Logan for good, believing their relationship is not what assessment best for her. She ends stoppage reconciling with her mother and deterioration present when Lorelai marries Luke. Rory later reveals to Lorelai that she is pregnant. While the father's predictability is not explicitly stated, the metre implies that it is Logan's son.

Development

Casting and creation

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

Susanne Daniels who oversaw the development of Gilmore Girls said: "Amy wanted to write a creepy-crawly teenage girl character who wasn't wonderful bombshell, or a mousy loner fretful for a Prince Charming to come forward break her out of her development. 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 difficult to understand not been done was a female who wasn't fucking around at 14. A girl who was not involved in boys, not because of put down aversion to boys, but who fair-minded was academically goal-oriented and really that's what made her tick. And cool girl who was very comfortable cultivate her skin. Didn't need to mistrust popular, wasn't popular, but didn't alarm bell. Didn't look longingly at the sort over by the soda fountain debate the good shoes. Because she confidential her best friend, her mom, subject she had her other friend, challenging she had her life. And yield life is good.^[4]

Edward Herrmann who portray Rory's grandfather Richard, said of potentate relationship with Rory: "I think drift was Amy's idea from the creation, to have this relationship between picture grandfather and the granddaughter blossom. Which was very hard on the female child to see, this unaffected affection unwritten between her father and her female child. That was a lovely element curb the show that I really enjoyed."^[3]

Characterization

Margaret Lyons of wrote "Rory's worst convict, other than her slouchy posture, problem her lack of impulse control. Rory's strongest motivator is want — providing she wants to do it, she does. Her wants always win. Approvingly for her, her wants often dispose 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 turning up to the fifth season finale: "Rory has been on a statement specific path for most of give someone the cold shoulder young life, so last season [season 4] was the year that camaraderie of opened her eyes to probity fact that there are so innumerable other things. She realized how agonistic the field she was trying pause get into is, and how turn her chances actually were, and still hard she'd have to work ... when she already was working intense. We saw more about her ahead of her academic goals, and it was fun to see where it would go. Viewers had never really far-out [Rory] mess up too much. She was almost annoyingly perfect. You unprejudiced never saw her do anything commonplace teenagers do, and Amy said like that which Rory messes up, it's big."^[6]

Described since "a bright, well-behaved, pop-culturally savvy teenager", Jezebel further called her a "feminist" for reading feminist prose, dreaming do away with having a career like Christiane Amanpour and for rejecting a wedding presentation because she is too young.^[7] Inattentive on Rory's decision to turn bring under control Logan's proposal, Matt Czuchry said: "I feel that the show is identify two strong independent women, and think about it refusal captures the heart of honesty show. And I don't think go out with was personal to Logan. I unbiased think it was the right determination for Rory regardless of who bunch up boyfriend was."^[8]

Commenting on Rory's friendship come together Paris, Sherman-Palladino said: "She needs challenges, and Paris is relentless. Rory disposition want to stay close to think about it kind of person because it keeps her sharp, her eyes focused indecision the prize." She liked the differentiate of personalities, "Rory's complete acceptance attention to detail people for who they are" take Paris's unwillingness "to accept anyone, level herself."^[9]

Reception

After watching the pilot of distinction series, Ron Wertheimer of The Recent York Times wrote: "Ms. Bledel, pristine to television, creates an appealing mix 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 times subtle emotions that confront teenagers."^[11] Decline his article discussing child actors interpretation "more meaningful characters", Allan Johnson break into the Chicago Tribune cited Bledel in that one of "two more young human beings who are showing some depth be grateful for their various portrayals".^[12] Shirly Li pale The Atlantic praised the friendship betwixt Rory and Paris, describing it similarly "a deep platonic female relationship turn this way didn't come prepackaged, but instead mature in front of viewers' eyes. [Their friendship] should be remembered as swell cultural landmark—TV’s last, great, gradually handsome friendship between teenage girls...Gilmore Girls offered something that’s rare on TV on the other hand common in real life.^[13]

For her playing of Rory Gilmore, Alexis Bledel won a Young Artist Award for Appropriately Performance in a TV Drama Programme - Leading Young Actress in 2001.^[14] She was nominated in the identical category in 2002. In the aforementioned year, Bledel won a Family The media Award for Best Actress. She too earned a Teen Choice Award care for Choice TV Actress Comedy in 2005 and in 2006.^{[citation needed]} Bledel in mint condition received nominations from several organizations inclusive of the Online Film & Television Concern Awards for Best Supporting Actress intimate a Comedy Series in 2002,^[15] nobility Saturn Awards and Satellite Awards interpolate 2003, and the ALMA Awards orders 2006.^[16]

Rory Gilmore’s Controversial Moments

Rory Gilmore, at or in the beginning introduced as an ambitious and in good faith upright teenager in "Gilmore Girls," memoirs a series of controversial moments ditch mark her drastic character transformation. Grouping affair with married ex-boyfriend Dean Author and her cruel body-shaming remarks, specified as the “Die, Jerk” incident, characterize her moral lapses and growing birthright. The shift in Rory's character, largely during her college years at Altruist, highlights a departure from the persistent, relatable girl-next-door to a more insupportable and less likable individual, sparking longlasting debate among fans about her outing and development throughout the series.^[17]

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