Gilmore Girls: The Gilmore Family

The door slams shut signaling the end to a heated argument between a mother and daughter. Tears stream down Lorelai’s face as the harsh words of her mother still ring through her ears. It feels as if the past will never be forgiven but will continue to weigh down her family, tearing them farther away from any hope of the possibility to be a happy family once again. The television series Gilmore Girls displays a family from popular culture in desperate need of aid from a Marriage and Family Therapist. Gilmore Girls tells the story of the Gilmore family consisting of Richard and Emily Gilmore, their daughter Lorelai, and her 16-year-old daughter Rory. The Gilmore family lives a life of luxury and would be considered upper class. Throughout her childhood, Lorelai struggled with feelings of isolation and did not seem to belong in the same social class as her parents. After the birth of Rory, Lorelai chose to live separate from her parents and raised her daughter in a small middle-class town known as …show more content…
This conflict arose when Lorelai ashamed the family name by getting pregnant out of wedlock and running away from her parents when she was 16 years old. Lorelai felt stifled as she was raised in a rich and stuffy household where little positive affect and authentic loving emotion was expressed. After the birth of her child, Lorelai vowed to raise her daughter in an open and honest environment and attempted to diminish the relationship with her parents. The family became very emotionally distant until Lorelai was forced to come to her parents with a dire need for financial assistance to fund her daughter's education. Now the family must learn how to positively enter back into each other's lives and have chosen to seek the help of a therapist in order to successfully complete this