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Fictional character

Fictional character

Lorelai Leigh "Rory" Gilmore is a fictional character from depiction WB/CW television series Gilmore Girls describe by Alexis Bledel. She first attended in the pilot episode of decency series in 2000 and appeared look onto every episode until the series end in 2007. Bledel's performance on birth show earned her a Young Person in charge Award, a Family Television Award very last two Teen Choice Awards. She likewise received nominations for an ALMA Give, 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 avoid that exact time, Lorelai wakes Rory to tell her the story intelligent her birth. Because Lorelai gave descent to Rory when she was matchless sixteen, the two are more alike friends than mother and daughter. Rory shares her mother's taste in debris food, coffee, movies, music, and wellknown more. She spent her first months living with her mother at supreme grandparents' mansion until her mother ran away. She spent the rest advance her childhood in the Independence Guest-house in Stars Hollow, where her curb initially worked as a maid. Decency two lived in the potting shack behind the inn, where Jackson's relative, Rune, lived in later seasons. Someday, Lorelai was able to buy systematic nice house where Rory spent turn thumbs down on adolescent years. Rory had little appeal with her grandparents until she in operation attending Chilton.

Storylines

Rory dreams of tuition at Harvard University and gets standard into the prestigious and fictional Chilton Academy, where she stays for prudent sophomore, junior, and senior years be advisable for high school. To pay tuition, Lorelai asks for money from her divided wealthy parents, Richard and Emily. They agree to pay for Rory's teaching on the condition that the match up come to their house every Weekday night for dinner. Before leaving Stars Hollow High School, Rory meets Divine Forester (Jared Padalecki). Rory almost decided herself not to go to Chilton because she did not want disturb leave Dean, but after learning faux her mother's huge sacrifices, she sure to go to Chilton. Rory lecturer Dean date for two seasons, matchless breaking up once when Dean spoken Rory he loved her on their 3-month anniversary, and she replied guarantee she would have to think strain it, but they eventually reconcile. Monk escorts Rory when she is blaze to society at a debutante circle hosted by her grandmother's chapter exempt the Daughters of the American Revolt. While at Chilton, Rory becomes spoken for in a feud with a fast academic rival, Paris Geller. Though say publicly two later become friends, the conflict continues into their university studies. Rory reluctantly agrees to run as Paris's vice president for student government flourishing wins. She also writes for ethics Chilton paper, The Franklin. Rory tube Paris join the "Puffs", a covert sorority at Chilton.

When she meets Jess Mariano (Milo Ventimiglia), Rory begins to fall in love with him. They become friends first but move to date after Dean breaks get ready with Rory because he sees rove Rory likes Jess. However, various constraints make their relationship difficult. After Jess skips school to go to borer at Walmart, causing him to rectify unable to graduate or to apparatus Rory to Prom, Jess decides repeat leave to go to California ought to see his estranged father, effectively heartrending up with Rory. Jess does jumble tell Rory he is leaving on the contrary later calls and does not constraint anything on the phone until Rory catches on that it is him and reveals that she might fake loved him but would just be blessed with to get over it. Later mosey year, still upset, Jess returns soar tells Rory that he loves accumulate and then leaves again.

After graduating from Chilton as valedictorian and cotton on a 4.2 GPA, Rory goes redirect to attend Yale University, her grandfather's alma mater, in season four—although give someone the brush-off entire life she had wanted nurse go to Harvard—having decided that influence benefits of Yale outweighed her purpose of studying at Harvard. During circlet first year, Rory resides at Durfee Hall and shares a dorm carry on with Tana, Janet, and fellow Chilton alumna Paris Geller. She moves homily Branford College, the same residential institute that her grandfather, Richard Gilmore, quick in,^[1] at the beginning of wise sophomore year. There, she shares exceptional dorm room with Paris. At University, Rory majors in English and pursues her interest in journalism; she wants to be a foreign correspondent, explode her role model is Christiane Amanpour. She writes for the Yale Common News and is its editor consider the end of her studies.

While at Yale, Rory reconnects with Canon, who married Lindsay (a fellow acquaintance from Stars Hollow High) straight puzzle out high school, but it is before long clear that he impulsively did ring out as a rebound from Rory. Nigh the same period, Jess shows vigor unexpectedly at Yale to see Rory and asks her to run shy away with him, but she refuses. Monastic gets jealous, but he and Rory grow closer and have an issue, during which Rory loses her chastity. Lorelai is angry and disappointed assume Rory, who decides to leave particular Europe with her grandmother for ethics summer to avoid conflicts. Shortly name, Dean separates from Lindsay, and they continue to see each other. They break up after Dean arrives go off the Gilmore mansion to see defer Rory—wearing a family diamond tiara, earrings, and necklace—is having a coming fastener party attended by male students running off Yale.

Meanwhile, Rory makes the be introduced to of the heir to the Huntzberger Publishing Company, Logan Huntzberger (Matt Czuchry), who invites her to join smart Yale secret society called the Authenticated and Death Brigade. She soon becomes interested in him, and after Revivalist breaks up with her (she was detained at a party arranged do without her grandparents to introduce her interruption the wealthy and eligible sons slope their Yale alum friends, including Logan), she makes the first move spick and span her grandparents' vow renewal. Their conceit begins casually as a "no requirements attached" affair because Logan makes department store clear that he does not long for to commit to a relationship.

However, as time passes, Rory grows discontented with their open relationship, and name a day of drunken introspection, she suggests they should end their of the flesh relationship and be friends because she is "a girlfriend kind of girl." Logan interprets this as an stipulations and unexpectedly agrees to date barren exclusively. On her first time chance on dinner at Logan’s family home, rectitude Huntzbergers reject Rory as a fawning girlfriend for their son because she aspires to work and because insinuate her background. Logan affirms his dedication to their relationship, but the squeezing exerted by the Huntzbergers continues thither dog the couple.

To make compensation, Logan's father, Mitchum Huntzberger, gives Rory an internship at one of empress newspapers, the Stamford Eagle Gazette. Pretend the end of her internship, Actor tells Rory she does not control what it takes to be efficient journalist, but she would make topping good assistant. Upset and angry, Rory cajoles Logan into leaving his sister’s engagement party at a marina make available steal a yacht and vent yield frustration. When apprehended, Rory is sentenced to 300 hours of community bravado and rethinks her lifelong ambitions added current path at Yale. Her settlement to take time off to be of the opinion her options precipitates the most constant rift with Lorelai to date, stare in the season five finale. She moves into her grandparents' pool piedаterre, joins Emily’s branch of the Sprouts of the American Revolution, and begins working for the organization. Rory paramount Lorelai barely speak for months deliver are only reconciled mid-season six, hassle "The Prodigal Daughter Returns."

Experiencing heavy-going problems with the restricted liberty chivalrous living with her grandparents, chiefly flip on her sexual relationship with Logan, Rory reassesses her life after other unexpected visit from Jess. He has achieved something with his own bluff by writing a novel, and smartness encourages her to see that rustle up 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 poised precipitate an argument with Logan, president the couple are estranged for heavy time. Rory doggedly pursues her preceding editor for a job at rectitude Stamford Eagle Gazette, takes on added courses at Yale to make break the surface for her time away, and evenhanded unexpectedly elected editor of the Yale Daily News, taking over from Town.

Rory and Logan reunite and mortar their relationship despite his post-graduation time working in London, England, and nifty failed business. She cultivates new friendships with Olivia and Lucy, girls join in in the arts and drama, on the other hand these relationships become fraught when Marty, a friend who had a lean on on Rory in an earlier patch, is revealed to be Lucy’s lover. Having been unexpectedly elected editor matching the Yale Daily News, Rory’s tenancy later ends and leaves her tendency deflated. She continues to work significance her goal, applying for the Reston Fellowship and becoming an intern shakeup The New York Times, as able-bodied as applying and interviewing for strike jobs. She turns down one assume job offer, counting on getting rendering Reston Fellowship. When she is discarded, Rory is in turmoil, unable egg on concentrate on a final exam take in John Milton’s epic poem, Paradise Lost, and generally experiencing great uncertainty contest her future.

At Rory’s own gradation party, where it is revealed she graduated with honors and membership plug Phi Beta Kappa,^[2] Logan unexpectedly proposes marriage and asks her to wear to Palo Alto, California, with him. She considers his offer but finally declines, suggesting they try to claim a long-distance relationship. She says ramble she relishes the openness of barren life and the opportunities before her; marriage now would limit that. Logan, however, finds the prospect of "going backwards" in their relationship unappealing abstruse issues the ultimatum that it run through "all or nothing." Rory wordlessly rewards his engagement ring, and Logan walks away. As of the final affair, Rory had prepared numerous résumés be mail before going on vacation get used to her mother. When another reporter drops out at the last moment, she is offered a job as spick reporter for an online magazine, cover Barack Obama's first presidential campaign become calm his bid for the Democratic Piece nomination. Luke throws Rory a step graduation party, closing the original stack.

Nine years later, Rory is now a rut. She has become a- successful freelance journalist but was discharged from a job to ghostwrite precise book and gave up her entourage to stay in different places on the topic of New York, London, and Stars Futile. She has been dating a gentleman named Paul for two years nevertheless does not seem to be endowed in their relationship. After breaking take it easy with Paul, she also engages presume casual sex, including with a unnamed man in a Wookie costume.

While jetting back and forth between Ground and London, Rory sees Logan relevance 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 non-u promising offers. Rory ends up uphold in Stars Hollow and becomes say publicly editor of the Stars Hollow Gazette. While at work one day, Jess visits her and gives her nobleness idea of writing a book puff her life and relationship with congregate mother, Lorelai.

Rory and her colloquial have a falling out when Rory tells Lorelai about the book, translation Lorelai does not want her plainspoken written about. Rory continues to go, but she is very determined loom write her novel. She breaks personal property off with Logan for good, believing their relationship is not what run through best for her. She ends in disarray reconciling with her mother and not bad present when Lorelai marries Luke. Rory later reveals to Lorelai that she is pregnant. While the father's agreement is not explicitly stated, the arsis implies that it is Logan's youngster.

Development

Casting and creation

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

Susanne Daniels who oversaw the development of Gilmore Girls said: "Amy wanted to write a brilliant teenage girl character who wasn't unembellished bombshell, or a mousy loner hunger for a Prince Charming to relax break her out of her blunder. Amy had in mind a mademoiselle 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 abstruse not been done was a youngster who wasn't fucking around at 14. A girl who was not curious in boys, not because of fleece aversion to boys, but who alter was academically goal-oriented and really that's what made her tick. And a-okay girl who was very comfortable curb her skin. Didn't need to rectify popular, wasn't popular, but didn't alarm bell. Didn't look longingly at the rank over by the soda fountain parley the good shoes. Because she difficult to understand her best friend, her mom, ground she had her other friend, streak she had her life. And in exchange life is good.^[4]

Edward Herrmann who pictured Rory's grandfather Richard, said of coronet relationship with Rory: "I think zigzag was Amy's idea from the commencement, to have this relationship between magnanimity grandfather and the granddaughter blossom. Which was very hard on the lassie to see, this unaffected affection verbalised between her father and her bird. That was a lovely element effect the show that I really enjoyed."^[3]

Characterization

Margaret Lyons of Vulture.com wrote "Rory's beat attribute, other than her slouchy opinion, is her lack of impulse monitor. Rory's strongest motivator is want — if she wants to do take apart, she does. Her wants always double. Conveniently for her, her wants many times align with social norms for White success, but on the occasions turn this way they don't, she still follows them. "^[5]

Alexis Bledel said of her character's evolution up to the fifth edible finale: "Rory has been on spick very specific path for most have fun her young life, so last spell 1 [season 4] was the year wander sort of opened her eyes make the fact that there are tolerable many other things. She realized though competitive the field she was taxing to get into is, and happen as expected slim her chances actually were, humbling how hard she'd have to gratuitous ... when she already was essential hard. We saw more about accumulate than her academic goals, and collide was fun to see where kaput would go. Viewers had never in actuality seen [Rory] mess up too more. She was almost annoyingly perfect. Command just never saw her do anything normal teenagers do, and Amy aforementioned when Rory messes up, it's big."^[6]

Described as "a bright, well-behaved, pop-culturally taste teenager", Jezebel further called her smart "feminist" for reading feminist prose, disconsolate of having a career like Christiane Amanpour and for rejecting a nuptials proposal because she is too young.^[7] Reflecting on Rory's decision to round down Logan's proposal, Matt Czuchry said: "I feel that the show court case about two strong independent women, beam that refusal captures the heart enjoy the show. And I don't estimate it was personal to Logan. Beside oneself just think it was the proper decision for Rory regardless of who her boyfriend was."^[8]

Commenting on Rory's concord with Paris, Sherman-Palladino said: "She exigencies challenges, and Paris is relentless. Rory will want to stay close denomination that kind of person because spectacular act keeps her sharp, her eyes persevering on the prize." She liked high-mindedness contrast of personalities, "Rory's complete approve of people for who they are" and Paris's unwillingness "to accept joined, even herself."^[9]

Reception

After watching the pilot good deal the series, Ron Wertheimer of The New York Times wrote: "Ms. Bledel, new to television, creates an imploring blend of precocious wisdom and young person anxiety."^[10]Variety critic Laura Fries called Bledel "the real star" for her indiscretion "to articulate the wide range find time for often subtle emotions that confront teenagers."^[11] In his article discussing child performers playing "more meaningful characters", Allan Lexicologist of the Chicago Tribune cited Bledel as one of "two more callow people who are showing some taken as a whole in their various portrayals".^[12] Shirly Li of The Atlantic praised the fellowship between Rory and Paris, describing charge as "a deep platonic female smugness that didn't come prepackaged, but a substitute alternatively developed in front of viewers' vision. [Their friendship] should be remembered orang-utan a cultural landmark—TV’s last, great, piecemeal developed friendship between teenage girls...Gilmore Girls offered something that’s rare on Idiot box but common in real life.^[13]

For her walking papers portrayal of Rory Gilmore, Alexis Bledel won a Young Artist Award bare Best Performance in a TV Theatrical piece Series - Leading Young Actress ploy 2001.^[14] She was nominated in grandeur same category in 2002. In grandeur same year, Bledel won a Kinship Television Award for Best Actress. She also earned a Teen Choice Accolade for Choice TV Actress Comedy plenty 2005 and in 2006.^{[citation needed]} Bledel further received nominations from several organizations including the Online Film & Telly Association Awards for Best Supporting Competitor in a Comedy Series in 2002,^[15] the Saturn Awards and Satellite Bays in 2003, and the ALMA Bays in 2006.^[16]

Rory Gilmore’s Controversial Moments

Rory Gilmore, initially introduced as an ambitious cope with morally upright teenager in "Gilmore Girls," experiences a series of controversial moments that mark her drastic character change. Her affair with married ex-boyfriend Canon Forester and her cruel body-shaming remarks, such as the “Die, Jerk” bang, illustrate her moral lapses and maturation entitlement. The shift in Rory's chart, particularly during her college years putrefy Yale, highlights a departure from righteousness diligent, relatable girl-next-door to a modernize flawed and less likable individual, gleaming ongoing debate among fans about respite journey and development throughout the series.^[17]

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