Gilmore Girls Character Analysis

Gilmore Girls is an American Comedy-Drama revolving around a single mother and her daughter in a fictional town named Stars Hallow. Throughout the seven seasons we see not only the bond between mother and daughter enhance but also the bond between townsfolk and family. We follow Rory’s (daughter) journey through private school and into college, dealing with mean girls, boys, and of course academic struggles. Through the ups and downs the audience builds connections with Rory as the “Golden Girl” of Stars Hollow. Lorelai 's (mother) life revolves around working at a small town inn and later in the season she starts moving forward on her dream of opening her own quaint inn, all while juggling the task of raising a daughter and trying to find

With neighbor Babette the relationship is clearly formed by proximity, as seen by the many times Babette comes over to their house to visit and the occasional chit-chat out in the front yard. We can see this is a clear example of proximity because if it was not for living in the same town, and even being neighbors with her, they would not be friends. Another character, Kirk Gleason, is seen to of held many jobs throughout his life in Stars Hallow. For the Gilmore girls he has served as the DSL installer, realtor-in-training, waiter, delivery man, first having task attraction with Gilmore girls but by the end of the series having a social attraction as their friendship has grown to sharing conversation and some similar interest. In Season three episode two Kirk asks Lorelai Gilmore out on a date, hinting that he is physically attracted to her, however she did not reciprocate these feelings and only saw him as a friend. A third character whose relationship grew with the Gilmore girls throughout the show is Sookie St. James, the chief at the inn Lorelai works at. Evident before the show started was that Sookie and Lorelai started out their relationship as task attraction and proximity as Sookie worked under Lorelai as the chef, however by the time the series began we see that their attraction was now from similarity and complementarity. In season one we see that Sookie and

Rory’s first boyfriend, Dean, was through physical appearance. In their first interaction we see Rory drop all of her books and Dean rush to help her. She is so thrown off by his attractiveness that she can hardly put words together. We then see throughout the next couple episodes the physical attraction of both characters as they form a bond of Dean simply watching Rory read in the town square and Rory watching Dean at his job in the supermarket. Throughout the course of their relationship we see Rory and Dean also form the complementarity attraction. In the relationship, Rory is the high-achieving, shy, brains of the couple and Dean is the outgoing and all around fun person in the relationship. However, after the break-up of Rory and Dean we see a new love interest appear, Jess. The attraction between Rory and Jess is seen through similarity as Jess is also an avid lover of literature and is also complementary as he is also outgoing. While this is a fleeting relationship, Rory’s next long-term relationship is with Logan, whom not only is she clearly physically attracted to, but also social attracted. Logan is always surrounded by his posse of friends and is known to be the life of the party. Through Rory’s relationship we see that majority of the attraction is physical and social attraction along with attraction to