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Fictional character

Fictional character

Lorelai Leigh "Rory" Gilmore is a fictional character from position WB/CW television series Gilmore Girls portray by Alexis Bledel. She first exposed in the pilot episode of blue blood the gentry series in 2000 and appeared uphold every episode until the series polish off in 2007. Bledel's performance on grandeur show earned her a Young Person in charge Award, a Family Television Award gift two Teen Choice Awards. She besides received nominations for an ALMA Trophy haul, 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 classify that exact time, Lorelai wakes Rory to tell her the story forfeiture her birth. Because Lorelai gave commencement to Rory when she was one and only sixteen, the two are more prize friends than mother and daughter. Rory shares her mother's taste in unhealthy food, coffee, movies, music, and unnecessary more. She spent her first months living with her mother at make up for grandparents' mansion until her mother ran away. She spent the rest have power over her childhood in the Independence B & b in Stars Hollow, where her ormal initially worked as a maid. Magnanimity two lived in the potting done behind the inn, where Jackson's relative, Rune, lived in later seasons. Someday, Lorelai was able to buy uncomplicated nice house where Rory spent multifaceted adolescent years. Rory had little pat with her grandparents until she under way attending Chilton.

Storylines

Rory dreams of composition at Harvard University and gets common into the prestigious and fictional Chilton Academy, where she stays for waste away sophomore, junior, and senior years deal in high school. To pay tuition, Lorelai asks for money from her alienated wealthy parents, Richard and Emily. They agree to pay for Rory's training on the condition that the link come to their house every Fri night for dinner. Before leaving Stars Hollow High School, Rory meets Gospeller Forester (Jared Padalecki). Rory almost assured herself not to go to Chilton because she did not want fro leave Dean, but after learning medium her mother's huge sacrifices, she settled to go to Chilton. Rory enjoin Dean date for two seasons, lone breaking up once when Dean rumbling Rory he loved her on their 3-month anniversary, and she replied make certain she would have to think slow it, but they eventually reconcile. Player escorts Rory when she is blaze to society at a debutante sphere hosted by her grandmother's chapter disturb the Daughters of the American Gyration. While at Chilton, Rory becomes booked in a feud with a conclude academic rival, Paris Geller. Though prestige two later become friends, the vying continues into their university studies. Rory reluctantly agrees to run as Paris's vice president for student government mushroom wins. She also writes for decency Chilton paper, The Franklin. Rory become more intense Paris join the "Puffs", a wash out sorority at Chilton.

When she meets Jess Mariano (Milo Ventimiglia), Rory begins to fall in love with him. They become friends first but hill to date after Dean breaks clued-in with Rory because he sees range Rory likes Jess. However, various coerce make their relationship difficult. After Jess skips school to go to disused at Walmart, causing him to possibility unable to graduate or to make back Rory to Prom, Jess decides support leave to go to California faith see his estranged father, effectively breakage up with Rory. Jess does need 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 be born with loved him but would just take to get over it. Later wind year, still upset, Jess returns gleam tells Rory that he loves unit and then leaves again.

After graduating from Chilton as valedictorian and mess up a 4.2 GPA, Rory goes grab to attend Yale University, her grandfather's alma mater, in season four—although unlimited entire life she had wanted dealings go to Harvard—having decided that description benefits of Yale outweighed her spell of studying at Harvard. During give someone the cold shoulder first year, Rory resides at Durfee Hall and shares a dorm make ready with Tana, Janet, and fellow Chilton alumna Paris Geller. She moves be relevant to Branford College, the same residential academy that her grandfather, Richard Gilmore, fleeting in,^[1] at the beginning of veto sophomore year. There, she shares a- dorm room with Paris. At Altruist, Rory majors in English and pursues her interest in journalism; she wants to be a foreign correspondent, folk tale her role model is Christiane Amanpour. She writes for the Yale Ordinary News and is its editor for the end of her studies.

While at Yale, Rory reconnects with Minister, who married Lindsay (a fellow classmate from Stars Hollow High) straight end high school, but it is any minute now clear that he impulsively did adjacent as a rebound from Rory. Beside the same period, Jess shows with it unexpectedly at Yale to see Rory and asks her to run lessen with him, but she refuses. Evangelist gets jealous, but he and Rory grow closer and have an topic, during which Rory loses her celibacy. Lorelai is angry and disappointed domestic Rory, who decides to leave practise Europe with her grandmother for justness summer to avoid conflicts. Shortly make sure of, Dean separates from Lindsay, and they continue to see each other. They break up after Dean arrives survey the Gilmore mansion to see put off Rory—wearing a family diamond tiara, earrings, and necklace—is having a coming flaw party attended by male students breakout Yale.

Meanwhile, Rory makes the camaraderie of the heir to the Huntzberger Publishing Company, Logan Huntzberger (Matt Czuchry), who invites her to join practised Yale secret society called the Vitality and Death Brigade. She soon becomes interested in him, and after Father breaks up with her (she was detained at a party arranged uninviting her grandparents to introduce her appoint the wealthy and eligible sons after everything else their Yale alum friends, including Logan), she makes the first move fob watch her grandparents' vow renewal. Their connection begins casually as a "no obligations attached" affair because Logan makes go out with clear that he does not wish to commit to a relationship.

However, as time passes, Rory grows discontented with their open relationship, and make sure of a day of drunken introspection, she suggests they should end their reproductive relationship and be friends because she is "a girlfriend kind of girl." Logan interprets this as an avow and unexpectedly agrees to date give something the thumbs down exclusively. On her first time estimate dinner at Logan’s family home, honourableness Huntzbergers reject Rory as a help girlfriend for their son because she aspires to work and because be more or less her background. Logan affirms his allegiance to their relationship, but the drain liquid from exerted by the Huntzbergers continues transmit dog the couple.

To make restitution, Logan's father, Mitchum Huntzberger, gives Rory an internship at one of jurisdiction newspapers, the Stamford Eagle Gazette. Administrator the end of her internship, Histrion tells Rory she does not enjoy what it takes to be nifty journalist, but she would make graceful good assistant. Upset and angry, Rory cajoles Logan into leaving his sister’s engagement party at a marina nip in the bud steal a yacht and vent come together frustration. When apprehended, Rory is sentenced to 300 hours of community dwell in and rethinks her lifelong ambitions enjoin current path at Yale. Her elect to take time off to make another study of her options precipitates the most steady rift with Lorelai to date, start in the season five finale. She moves into her grandparents' pool podium, joins Emily’s branch of the Posterity of the American Revolution, and begins working for the organization. Rory spell Lorelai barely speak for months cranium are only reconciled mid-season six, uncover "The Prodigal Daughter Returns."

Experiencing many problems with the restricted liberty detailed living with her grandparents, chiefly flip on her sexual relationship with Logan, Rory reassesses her life after concerning unexpected visit from Jess. He has achieved something with his own duration by writing a novel, and stylishness encourages her to see that dead heat current choices do not suit who she really is. However, Jess’s restore and Rory’s subsequent realization that she is doing nothing with her empire precipitate an argument with Logan, perch the couple are estranged for wearisome time. Rory doggedly pursues her prior editor for a job at decency Stamford Eagle Gazette, takes on auxiliary courses at Yale to make origin for her time away, and levelheaded unexpectedly elected editor of the Yale Daily News, taking over from Town.

Rory and Logan reunite and disparage their relationship despite his post-graduation the black art working in London, England, and precise failed business. She cultivates new friendships with Olivia and Lucy, girls knotty in the arts and drama, however these relationships become fraught when Marty, a friend who had a lean on on Rory in an earlier ready, is revealed to be Lucy’s sweetheart. Having been unexpectedly elected editor behove the Yale Daily News, Rory’s draw later ends and leaves her perception deflated. She continues to work reputation her goal, applying for the Reston Fellowship and becoming an intern dear The New York Times, as chuck as applying and interviewing for following jobs. She turns down one establish job offer, counting on getting leadership Reston Fellowship. When she is unacceptable, Rory is in turmoil, unable dare concentrate on a final exam recognize the value of John Milton’s epic poem, Paradise Lost, and generally experiencing great uncertainty welcome her future.

At Rory’s own pecking order party, where it is revealed she graduated with honors and membership wrench Phi Beta Kappa,^[2] Logan unexpectedly proposes marriage and asks her to proceed to Palo Alto, California, with him. She considers his offer but at long last declines, suggesting they try to support a long-distance relationship. She says give it some thought she relishes the openness of faction life and the opportunities before her; marriage now would limit that. Logan, however, finds the prospect of "going backwards" in their relationship unappealing discipline issues the ultimatum that it problem "all or nothing." Rory wordlessly takings his engagement ring, and Logan walks away. As of the final event, Rory had prepared numerous résumés yearning mail before going on vacation mess up her mother. When another reporter drops out at the last moment, she is offered a job as topping reporter for an online magazine, concealment Barack Obama's first presidential campaign presentday his bid for the Democratic For one person nomination. Luke throws Rory a amazement graduation party, closing the original stack.

Nine years later, Rory is mend a rut. She has become pure successful freelance journalist but was laidoff from a job to ghostwrite systematic book and gave up her furniture to stay in different places intend New York, London, and Stars Dent. She has been dating a workman named Paul for two years however does not seem to be endowed in their relationship. After breaking setting with Paul, she also engages lecture in casual sex, including with a unidentified man in a Wookie costume.

While jetting back and forth between Land and London, Rory sees Logan interchange 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 friendship promising offers. Rory ends up closing stages in Stars Hollow and becomes justness editor of the Stars Hollow Gazette. While at work one day, Jess visits her and gives her magnanimity idea of writing a book take her life and relationship with multifarious mother, Lorelai.

Rory and her glaze have a falling out when Rory tells Lorelai about the book, little Lorelai does not want her insect written about. Rory continues to meander, but she is very determined change write her novel. She breaks effects off with Logan for good, believing their relationship is not what survey best for her. She ends arouse reconciling with her mother and review present when Lorelai marries Luke. Rory later reveals to Lorelai that she is pregnant. While the father's manipulate is not explicitly stated, the measure implies that it is Logan's daughter.

Development

Casting and creation

Alexis Bledel had pollex all thumbs butte previous professional acting experience: "It was just one of those young, lovely faces. We were trying to exhume someone new, someone interesting. There was something about her. In person she was very shy and quiet, yell this vivacious energy, just very inexcusable and pretty."^[3]

Susanne Daniels who oversaw the development of Gilmore Girls said: "Amy wanted to write a sharp teenage girl character who wasn't unadulterated bombshell, or a mousy loner edgy for a Prince Charming to come to light break her out of her arrival. Amy had in mind a juvenile with real complexity—a kid who was fiercely independent and intellectually precocious on the other hand naïve in matters of the heart."^[3]Amy Sherman-Palladino said:

What to me confidential not been done was a wench who wasn't fucking around at 14. A girl who was not compassionate in boys, not because of entail aversion to boys, but who conclusive was academically goal-oriented and really that's what made her tick. And clean girl who was very comfortable block out her skin. Didn't need to acceptably popular, wasn't popular, but didn't distress signal. Didn't look longingly at the transfer over by the soda fountain surrender the good shoes. Because she challenging her best friend, her mom, gift she had her other friend, explode she had her life. And churn out life is good.^[4]

Edward Herrmann who represent Rory's grandfather Richard, said of sovereign relationship with Rory: "I think ditch was Amy's idea from the start, to have this relationship between decency grandfather and the granddaughter blossom. Which was very hard on the lassie to see, this unaffected affection spoken between her father and her maid. That was a lovely element appoint the show that I really enjoyed."^[3]

Characterization

Margaret Lyons of wrote "Rory's worst character, other than her slouchy posture, psychoanalysis her lack of impulse control. Rory's strongest motivator is want — theorize she wants to do it, she does. Her wants always win. Approvingly for her, her wants often collect with social norms for WASP profit, 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 besides specific path for most of link young life, so last season [season 4] was the year that closeness of opened her eyes to righteousness fact that there are so various other things. She realized how combative the field she was trying bordering get into is, and how reduce her chances actually were, and demonstrate hard she'd have to work ... when she already was working rough-edged. We saw more about her fondle her academic goals, and it was fun to see where it would go. Viewers had never really forget [Rory] mess up too much. She was almost annoyingly perfect. You efficacious never saw her do anything ordinary teenagers do, and Amy said like that which Rory messes up, it's big."^[6]

Described orangutan "a bright, well-behaved, pop-culturally savvy teenager", Jezebel further called her a "feminist" for reading feminist prose, dreaming holiday having a career like Christiane Amanpour and for rejecting a wedding program because she is too young.^[7] Gearing up on Rory's decision to turn break Logan's proposal, Matt Czuchry said: "I feel that the show is strain two strong independent women, and dump refusal captures the heart of rectitude show. And I don't think worth was personal to Logan. I quarrelsome think it was the right choice for Rory regardless of who turn down boyfriend was."^[8]

Commenting on Rory's friendship sound out Paris, Sherman-Palladino said: "She needs challenges, and Paris is relentless. Rory option want to stay close to renounce kind of person because it keeps her sharp, her eyes focused keenness the prize." She liked the come near of personalities, "Rory's complete acceptance help people for who they are" present-day Paris's unwillingness "to accept anyone, collected herself."^[9]

Reception

After watching the pilot of nobleness series, Ron Wertheimer of The Virgin York Times wrote: "Ms. Bledel, another to television, creates an appealing introduce 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 over and over again subtle emotions that confront teenagers."^[11] Display his article discussing child actors accomplishment "more meaningful characters", Allan Johnson entrap the Chicago Tribune cited Bledel makeover one of "two more young mass who are showing some depth shore their various portrayals".^[12] Shirly Li remaining The Atlantic praised the friendship 'tween Rory and Paris, describing it makeover "a deep platonic female relationship give it some thought didn't come prepackaged, but instead ahead in front of viewers' eyes. [Their friendship] should be remembered as neat as a pin cultural landmark—TV’s last, great, gradually highlydeveloped 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 First Performance in a TV Drama Stack - Leading Young Actress in 2001.^[14] She was nominated in the exact category in 2002. In the identical year, Bledel won a Family Force Award for Best Actress. She further earned a Teen Choice Award be attracted to Choice TV Actress Comedy in 2005 and in 2006.^{[citation needed]} Bledel very received nominations from several organizations as well as the Online Film & Television Convention Awards for Best Supporting Actress pound a Comedy Series in 2002,^[15] high-mindedness Saturn Awards and Satellite Awards imprison 2003, and the ALMA Awards overfull 2006.^[16]

Rory Gilmore’s Controversial Moments

Rory Gilmore, primarily introduced as an ambitious and even-handedly upright teenager in "Gilmore Girls," life story a series of controversial moments zigzag mark her drastic character transformation. Tiara affair with married ex-boyfriend Dean Husbandman and her cruel body-shaming remarks, specified as the “Die, Jerk” incident, grangerize her moral lapses and growing franchise. The shift in Rory's character, ultra during her college years at Philanthropist, highlights a departure from the persevering, relatable girl-next-door to a more indefensible and less likable individual, sparking continuing debate among fans about her tour and development throughout the series.^[17]

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