From the beginning of the episode where we start off, the house of Meredith grey looks like a typical home for someone who is always busy and on the run; messy. Being a newly graduated …show more content…
Towards the end of the episode, after helping to save a girl’s life and getting to be in the operating room during the surgery, she realizes why she wanted to become a doctor. She says this to her assumed to be love interest Derek Shepherd who is also her new boss. We also start to see the reason why Meredith questions herself wanting to be a doctor throughout the episode due to her mom apparently being a very famous surgeon who even came up with new medical theories and procedures. She hopes to live up to her mother’s legacy during her residency at the same hospital where her mother worked. Ellen is a great actress in that she really portrays the aspiring daughter especially at the end of the episode where she is seen talking to her mother who seems to have Alzheimer’s and doesn’t remember who she is. She just wants to make her mom proud even though her mother doesn’t know who she is