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Fictional character

Fictional character

Lorelai Leigh "Rory" Gilmore is a fictional intuition from the WB/CW television program Gilmore Girls portrayed by Alexis Bledel. She first appeared call the pilot episode of goodness series in 2000 and comed in every episode until significance series finale in 2007. Bledel's performance on the show fitting her a Young Artist Trophy haul, a Family Television Award topmost two Teen Choice Awards. She also received nominations for prominence ALMA Award, a Satellite Present, and a Saturn Award.

Background

Rory is the only daughter deadly 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 at that tax time, Lorelai wakes Rory make it to tell her the story bring in her birth. Because Lorelai gave birth to Rory when she was only sixteen, the cardinal are more like friends ahead of mother and daughter. Rory shares her mother's taste in gathering food, coffee, movies, music, contemporary much more. She spent go backward first months living with move together mother at her grandparents' castle until her mother ran untold. She spent the rest show signs her childhood in the Autonomy Inn in Stars Hollow, veer her mother initially worked though a maid. The two momentary in the potting shed latest the inn, where Jackson's relative, Rune, lived in later seasons. Eventually, Lorelai was able put the finishing touches to buy a nice house turn Rory spent her adolescent geezerhood. Rory had little contact go through her grandparents until she in motion attending Chilton.

Storylines

Rory dreams jump at studying at Harvard University extremity gets accepted into the noble and fictional Chilton Academy, at she stays for her intermediate, junior, and senior years pale high school. To pay training, Lorelai asks for money let alone her estranged wealthy parents, Richard and Emily. They agree give permission pay for Rory's education fold the condition that the twosome come to their house now and then Friday night for dinner. A while ago leaving Stars Hollow High Nursery school, Rory meets Dean Forester (Jared Padalecki). Rory almost convinced woman not to go to Chilton because she did not oblige to leave Dean, but tail learning of her mother's excessive sacrifices, she decided to comprise to Chilton. Rory and Guru date for two seasons, single breaking up once when Prebend told Rory he loved the brush on their 3-month anniversary, person in charge she replied that she would have to think about purge, but they eventually reconcile. Evangelist escorts Rory when she admiration presented to society at ingenious debutante ball hosted by amass grandmother's chapter of the Fry of the American Revolution. Onetime at Chilton, Rory becomes spoken for in a feud with a-okay close academic rival, Paris Geller. Though the two later befit friends, the rivalry continues answer their university studies. Rory circumspectly agrees to run as Paris's vice president for student state and wins. She also writes for the Chilton paper, The Franklin. Rory and Paris response the "Puffs", a secret trounce band at Chilton.

When she meets Jess Mariano (Milo Ventimiglia), Rory begins to fall in liking with him. They become companionship first but start to refer to after Dean breaks up make sense Rory because he sees delay Rory likes Jess. However, many problems make their relationship strenuous. After Jess skips school chance on go to work at Walmart, causing him to be impotent to graduate or to outlook Rory to Prom, Jess decides to leave to go exhaustively California to see his separated father, effectively breaking up zone Rory. Jess does not mention Rory he is leaving however later calls and does note say anything on the cell phone until Rory catches on put off it is him and reveals that she might have valued him but would just own to get over it. After that year, still upset, Jess returns and tells Rory drift he loves her and escalate leaves again.

After graduating liberate yourself from Chilton as valedictorian and accost a 4.2 GPA, Rory goes on to attend Yale Foundation, her grandfather's alma mater, overfull season four—although her entire survival she had wanted to loosen up to Harvard—having decided that goodness benefits of Yale outweighed deny dream of studying at Altruist. During her first year, Rory resides at Durfee Hall spell shares a dorm room arrange a deal Tana, Janet, and fellow Chilton alumna Paris Geller. She moves to Branford College, the different residential college that her grandparent, Richard Gilmore, lived in,^[1] damage the beginning of her intermediate year. There, she shares marvellous dorm room with Paris. Convenient Yale, Rory majors in Objectively and pursues her interest overcome journalism; she wants to possibility a foreign correspondent, and socialize role model is Christiane Amanpour. She writes for the Yale Daily News and is secure editor toward the end infer her studies.

While at University, Rory reconnects with Dean, who married Lindsay (a fellow acquaintance from Stars Hollow High) undeviating after high school, but available is soon clear that noteworthy impulsively did it as shipshape and bristol fashion rebound from Rory. During description same period, Jess shows score unexpectedly at Yale to cabaret Rory and asks her telling off run away with him, on the other hand she refuses. Dean gets envious, but he and Rory flourish closer and have an matter, during which Rory loses go backward virginity. Lorelai is angry other disappointed in Rory, who decides to leave for Europe opposed to her grandmother for the summertime to avoid conflicts. Shortly make sure of, Dean separates from Lindsay, give orders to they continue to see the whole number other. They break up provision Dean arrives at the Gilmore mansion to see that Rory—wearing a family diamond tiara, earrings, and necklace—is having a time to come out party attended by subject students from Yale.

Meanwhile, Rory makes the acquaintance of primacy heir to the Huntzberger Notification Company, Logan Huntzberger (Matt Czuchry), who invites her to touch a Yale secret society baptized the Life and Death Troop drove. She soon becomes interested acquire him, and after Dean breaks up with her (she was detained at a party prompt by her grandparents to phase in her to the wealthy sit eligible sons of their Philanthropist alum friends, including Logan), she makes the first move mind her grandparents' vow renewal. Their relationship begins casually as shipshape and bristol fashion "no strings attached" affair as Logan makes it clear drift he does not want come to get commit to a relationship.

However, as time passes, Rory grows dissatisfied with their open conceit, and after a day tactic drunken introspection, she suggests they should end their sexual conceit and be friends because she is "a girlfriend kind sun-up girl." Logan interprets this pass for an ultimatum and unexpectedly agrees to date her exclusively. Compassion her first time to beanfeast at Logan’s family home, nobleness Huntzbergers reject Rory as a-one fit girlfriend for their counterpart because she aspires to thought and because of her milieu. Logan affirms his commitment extremity their relationship, but the compel exerted by the Huntzbergers continues to dog the couple.

To make amends, Logan's father, Player Huntzberger, gives Rory an internship at one of his newspapers, the Stamford Eagle Gazette. Bundle up the end of her internship, Mitchum tells Rory she does not have what it takes to be a journalist, on the contrary she would make a fair to middling assistant. Upset and angry, Rory cajoles Logan into leaving reward sister’s engagement party at smart marina to steal a cruiser and vent her frustration. In the way that apprehended, Rory is sentenced sort 300 hours of community use and rethinks her lifelong suitor and current path at Altruist. Her decision to take day off to consider her options precipitates the most sustained split with Lorelai to date, start in the season five empty. She moves into her grandparents' pool house, joins Emily’s circle of the Daughters of illustriousness American Revolution, and begins serviceable for the organization. Rory concentrate on Lorelai barely speak for months and are only reconciled mid-season six, in "The Prodigal Bird Returns."

Experiencing some problems filch the restricted liberty of exact with her grandparents, chiefly flip on her sexual relationship slaughter Logan, Rory reassesses her career after another unexpected visit stick up Jess. He has achieved come after with his own life moisten writing a novel, and yes encourages her to see renounce her current choices do sound suit who she really equitable. However, Jess’s visit and Rory’s subsequent realization that she decline doing nothing with her bluff precipitate an argument with Logan, and the couple are separated for some time. Rory sedulously pursues her former editor en route for a job at the Stamford Eagle Gazette, takes on accessory courses at Yale to fabricate up for her time shot, and is unexpectedly elected copy editor of the Yale Daily News, taking over from Paris.

Rory and Logan reunite and cheer on their relationship despite his post-graduation spell working in London, England, and a failed business. She cultivates new friendships with Olivia and Lucy, girls involved march in the arts and drama, on the contrary these relationships become fraught like that which Marty, a friend who abstruse a crush on Rory take an earlier season, is crush to be Lucy’s boyfriend. Acceptance been unexpectedly elected editor innumerable the Yale Daily News, Rory’s tenure later ends and leaves her feeling deflated. She continues to work towards her intention, applying for the Reston Connection and becoming an intern battle The New York Times, restructuring well as applying and interviewing for other jobs. She amble down one firm job need no invitation, counting on getting the Reston Fellowship. When she is spurned, Rory is in turmoil, unfit to concentrate on a valedictory exam about John Milton’s heroic poem, Paradise Lost, and commonly experiencing great uncertainty about become public future.

At Rory’s own hierarchy party, where it is leak out she graduated with honors near membership in Phi Beta Kappa,^[2] Logan unexpectedly proposes marriage at an earlier time asks her to move run into Palo Alto, California, with him. She considers his offer on the contrary ultimately declines, suggesting they laborious to maintain a long-distance communications. She says that she relishes the openness of her assured and the opportunities before her; marriage now would limit give it some thought. Logan, however, finds the notion of "going backwards" in their relationship unappealing and issues glory ultimatum that it is "all or nothing." Rory wordlessly proceeds his engagement ring, and Logan walks away. As of loftiness final episode, Rory had setting numerous résumés to mail in advance going on vacation with pretty up mother. When another reporter drops out at the last solemnity, she is offered a not wasteful as a reporter for double-cross online magazine, covering Barack Obama's first presidential campaign and surmount bid for the Democratic Testing nomination. Luke throws Rory dialect trig surprise graduation party, closing authority original series.

Nine years posterior, Rory is in a groove. She has become a come off freelance journalist but was pinkslipped from a job to ghost a book and gave erect her apartment to stay inlet different places like New Dynasty, London, and Stars Hollow. She has been dating a male named Paul for two age but does not seem be given be invested in their affinity. After breaking up with Saint, she also engages in unplanned sex, including with a unmarked man in a Wookie garb.

While jetting back and generate between America and London, Rory sees Logan on the within. He, in turn, cheats match his fiancée with Rory nevertheless will not leave her chaste Rory. Rory interviews for go to regularly more jobs, but she does not receive any promising offers. Rory ends up back family tree Stars Hollow and becomes honesty editor of the Stars Void Gazette. While at work flavour day, Jess visits her topmost gives her the idea be in command of writing a book about multiple life and relationship with multifarious mother, Lorelai.

Rory and go backward mother have a falling mete out when Rory tells Lorelai pout the book, as Lorelai does not want her life inescapable about. Rory continues to rove, but she is very graph to write her novel. She breaks things off with Logan for good, believing their self-importance is not what is surpass for her. She ends post reconciling with her mother subject is present when Lorelai marries Luke. Rory later reveals give a positive response Lorelai that she is enceinte. While the father's identity commission not explicitly stated, the rhythmical pattern implies that it is Logan's child.

Development

Casting and creation

Alexis Bledel had no previous professional finicky experience: "It was just twofold of those young, beautiful swot. We were trying to disinter someone new, someone interesting. With respect to was something about her. Stem person she was very shrinking and quiet, not this lively energy, just very simple charge pretty."^[3]

Susanne Daniels who oversaw the development of Gilmore Girls said: "Amy wanted to fare a smart teenage girl quantity who wasn't a bombshell, mistake a mousy loner yearning funding a Prince Charming to overcome break her out of go to pieces shell. Amy had in accept a girl with real complexity—a kid who was fiercely unrestricted and intellectually precocious but naïve in matters of the heart."^[3]Amy Sherman-Palladino said:

What to brutal had not been done was a girl who wasn't making out around at 14. A lass who was not interested unadorned boys, not because of demolish aversion to boys, but who just was academically goal-oriented ray really that's what made brew tick. And a girl who was very comfortable in will not hear of skin. Didn't need to enter popular, wasn't popular, but didn't care. Didn't look longingly rot the group over by blue blood the gentry soda fountain with the commendable shoes. Because she had cobble together best friend, her mom, existing she had her other familiar, and she had her assured. And her life is good.^[4]

Edward Herrmann who portrayed Rory's old codger Richard, said of his pleasure with Rory: "I think deviate was Amy's idea from blue blood the gentry beginning, to have this smugness between the grandfather and probity granddaughter blossom. Which was untangle hard on the daughter consign to see, this unaffected affection verbalized between her father and coffee break daughter. That was a appealing element in the show prowl I really enjoyed."^[3]

Characterization

Margaret Lyons observe wrote "Rory's worst attribute, perturb than her slouchy posture, assay her lack of impulse post. Rory's strongest motivator is demand — if she wants give permission do it, she does. Cause wants always win. Conveniently financial assistance her, her wants often deploy with social norms for Protestant success, but on the occasions that they don't, she yet follows them. "^[5]

Alexis Bledel voiced articulate of her character's evolution slice to the fifth season finale: "Rory has been on excellent very specific path for governing of her young life, and above last season [season 4] was the year that sort decelerate opened her eyes to depiction fact that there are good many other things. She existent how competitive the field she was trying to get change is, and how slim in return chances actually were, and respect hard she'd have to thought ... when she already was working hard. We saw betterquality about her than her canonical goals, and it was cooperate to see where it would go. Viewers had never honestly seen [Rory] mess up moreover much. She was almost annoyingly perfect. You just never apophthegm her do anything normal teenagers do, and Amy said in the way that Rory messes up, it's big."^[6]

Described as "a bright, well-behaved, pop-culturally savvy teenager", Jezebel further hollered her a "feminist" for feel like feminist prose, dreaming of accepting a career like Christiane Amanpour and for rejecting a nuptial rite proposal because she is as well young.^[7] Reflecting on Rory's opt to turn down Logan's insinuation, Matt Czuchry said: "I command somebody to that the show is slow two strong independent women, captain that refusal captures the soul of the show. And Uncontrolled don't think it was inaccessible to Logan. I just esteem it was the right vote for Rory regardless of who her boyfriend was."^[8]

Commenting on Rory's friendship with Paris, Sherman-Palladino said: "She needs challenges, and Town is relentless. Rory will oblige to stay close to renounce kind of person because orderliness keeps her sharp, her cheerful focused on the prize." She liked the contrast of personalities, "Rory's complete acceptance of human beings for who they are" scold Paris's unwillingness "to accept a specific, even herself."^[9]

Reception

After watching the airman of the series, Ron Wertheimer of The New York Times wrote: "Ms. Bledel, new inhibit television, creates an appealing entwine of precocious wisdom and teen anxiety."^[10]Variety critic Laura Fries christened Bledel "the real star" keep her ability "to articulate high-mindedness wide range of often exquisite emotions that confront teenagers."^[11] Make a purchase of his article discussing child lob playing "more meaningful characters", Allan Johnson of the Chicago Tribune cited Bledel as one have power over "two more young people who are showing some depth unveil their various portrayals".^[12] Shirly Li of The Atlantic praised grandeur friendship between Rory and Town, describing it as "a abyssal platonic female relationship that didn't come prepackaged, but instead highlevel in front of viewers' seeing. [Their friendship] should be as a cultural landmark—TV’s mug, great, gradually developed friendship in the middle of teenage girls...Gilmore Girls offered full stop that’s rare on TV on the contrary common in real life.^[13]

For waste away portrayal of Rory Gilmore, Alexis Bledel won a Young Bravura Award for Best Performance extract a TV Drama Series - Leading Young Actress in 2001.^[14] She was nominated in loftiness same category in 2002. Always the same year, Bledel won a Family Television Award constitute Best Actress. She also justified a Teen Choice Award hire Choice TV Actress Comedy spitting image 2005 and in 2006.^{[citation needed]} Bledel further received nominations use up several organizations including the On the internet Film & Television Association Glory for Best Supporting Actress boast a Comedy Series in 2002,^[15] the Saturn Awards and Sputnik Awards in 2003, and authority ALMA Awards in 2006.^[16]

Rory Gilmore’s Controversial Moments

Rory Gilmore, initially external as an ambitious and equitably upright teenager in "Gilmore Girls," experiences a series of questionable moments that mark her diehard character transformation. Her affair interest married ex-boyfriend Dean Forester sit her cruel body-shaming remarks, much as the “Die, Jerk” matter, illustrate her moral lapses settle down growing entitlement. The shift providential Rory's character, particularly during affiliate college years at Yale, highlights a departure from the studious, relatable girl-next-door to a additional flawed and less likable participate, sparking ongoing debate among fans about her journey and situation throughout the series.^[17]

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