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Gilmore Girls Research Paper

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The television show Gilmore Girls was a very successful “dramedy” created by Amy Sherman-Palladino that starred Laure Graham and Alexis Bledel. It is centered around a young mother named Lorelai (Graham) and the daughter that she had at sixteen named Rory (Bledel) who live in a very small town, the fictional Stars Hollow, Connecticut. Lorelai’s parents, Richard and Emily Gilmore, live in Hartford, Connecticut and are rich and proper and have very specific ideas of what a life should look like. Lorelai never felt like she belonged in that world, which is why she moved to Stars Hollow when she was seventeen, just a year after she had Rory. Lorelai began her life in Stars Hollow by living in a potting shed behind The Independence Inn, where she got …show more content…

These women are portrayed as strong and smart and independent. Rory is valedictorian of her senior class and gets into both Harvard and Yale, eventually attending Yale. She becomes an active member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, where she hosts parties and fundraisers and is in charge of a lot of important events. She also becomes editor of the Yale Daily News. Both of these are positions of power and leadership. Lorelai starts off as the manager of a successful inn and eventually becomes co-owner of her own inn, the Dragonfly, which she buys with her best friend Sookie St. James (another woman). There are actually a lot of women who own their own businesses in this show; Miss Patty owns her own dance studio, Mrs. Kim owns Kim’s Antiques, Gypsy owns the local auto shop (and works as a mechanic), just to name a few. This is significant because it isn’t often on television shows that women are shown as businesswomen or business owners, but this show has a whole host of them. Any woman watching Gilmore Girls is presented with a list of successful women characters that should make them feel inspired and

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