Rainer schaller biography of rory gilmore

Perhaps no image is more representative of the young Rory Gilmore Alexis Bledel — protagonist, along with her mother Lorelai Gilmore Lauren Graham , of the TV series Gilmore Girls , created by Amy Sherman-Palladino — than her reading a book, so completely absorbed in a literary classic that she's blissfully unaware of everything else.

This is how her passion for literature is first introduced in the show's pilot, when the new heart-throb in town and soon Rory's first love interest, Dean Jared Padalecki , admits he has fallen for her when watching her reading Moby Dick with "unbelievable concentration," while a drama, complete with blood gushing and an ambulance, unfolds around her.

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I have to meet that girl. Rory is frequently hailed as one of the most well-read characters in TV and a role-model for bookworms everywhere. Rather, the world of literature and books is integral to how Rory understands herself and, therefore, arguably helps illuminate the imperatives and shortcomings that characterize her as a neoliberal "achievement-subject.

I've been a resident of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, hunted the white whale aboard the Pequod, fought alongside Napoleon, sailed a raft with Huck and Jim, committed absurdities with Ignatius J. Reilly, rode a sad train with Anna Karenina and strolled down Swann's Way. Yet Rory's love for literature is also very much intertwined with real-world ambition and aspiration.

Lorelai, Rory explains in her speech, "filled our house with love and fun and books and music, unflagging in her efforts to give me role models from Jane Austen to Eudora Welty to Patti Smith" and "never g[iving] me any idea that I couldn't do whatever I wanted to do or be whomever I wanted to be. We know Rory's aspirations right from the show's start: to be like CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour and "travel, see the world up close, report on what's really going on, be part of something big".

Of course, none of this would have been possible without the Gilmore family's money, which pays for the considerable expense of Rory's private education.