Lorelai Gilmore Character Analysis

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Lorelai Gilmore is a thirty-two-year-old White American, single mother who lives with her sixteen-year-old daughter Rory in Star Hollow- Connecticut. She got pregnant to Rory at the age of sixteen and did not get married to Rory’s father. Lorelai comes from a very wealthy, educated and high-demanding family, but her early pregnancy deeply impaired their relationship. Therefore, she tries to stand on her own legs and works as a manager in a Hotel. Her daughter Rory is above average intelligent and intellectual teenage girl who dreams to go to Harvard. Their relationship seems to be more a friendship rather than a parent-child relationship. They have very warm and close relationships and support each other in many ways.
On the other hand, Lorelai

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