The Downfall of Rory Gilmore

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[cherry_zzz]

Sometimes I think her bangs seeped into her brain and made her go insane

[charlesgrover]

A big fault I saw in Rory in her later years was she liked the aesthetic and title of being a self made woman like her mom, but the moment a single toil came her way she ran back to the rich and cozy life of her wealthy grandparents while still failing to recognize that privilege

[feliciarosenberg]

I had no issues with Rory's flaws. My issue was that nobody in the show seemed to notice them. In real life Rory would have been as friendless as Paris because she treats people like trash and isn't sociable.

[tyra]

That season where Mitchum gave her a tiny bit of criticism and everyone treated her like she had been shot 😭😭

[angryowl]

She had one identity: to be a successful journalist. When the road to that identity started to get windy and difficult (unlike most of her early life) she started to loose her sense of identity and purpose. It’s sad really.

[gabrielacanette]

I put the 🙅 on the character when SHE cheated on Dean but somehow the whole town begins to treat Dean badly and they assume that he was the guilty one of everything and she never stand up and clears things up. The poor boy was literally forbidden to enter the stores, although he stopped being the poor boy the moment he cheated on his wife with Rory

[dietdrpepper]

It's not that she makes mistakes its that she doesn't learn from them or try to make up for them. Just painful to watch.

[adsl-b]

I think she went downhill after she chose yale over Harvard as she just chooses to follow her families privilege and ideals rather than going to Harvard as it was all she ever wanted and worked for

[katecod]

I think most of Rory’s downfalls really came down to Lorelai’s parenting. She treated Rory like her best friend and made Rory think that she was just this perfect, amazing person who could never do anything wrong. So when she made even the slightest mistake or faced any sort of criticism, constructive or not, she freaked out and had a meltdown which never ended well. She was also never disciplined for anything which led her to do so many horrible things and convince herself and others that she didn’t do anything wrong. That just proves that parenting your children right is so important because it will determine their entire life.

[ClaudiaJuliet]

I actually really liked how she was written. It was different because it was realistic. Things don't always pan out as you planned. And sometimes you do things and find yourselves in situations you never thought you would be.

[genesiscda]

Rory sleeping with Dean while he was married was when she really did herself in, in my opinion. She went downhill real fast after that one choice.

[aubreydeangelo]

Rory is a real life person. Although AYITL had some weird writing, I love the Rory arch. I love the downfall, the angst, the mistakes, the selfishness. A real person. And Rory was never a "good person". She was never a good friend, she was a medium okay daughter, she was a pretty okay girlfriend. This was even in HS. Saying Rory became a bad person is disingenuous because she's always been mediocre besides her academics. She cheated on Dean, lied to her mom A LOT, was spoiled and a fair weather friend to Lane. And I still enjoyed her story. I enjoyed the story of the Gilmore Girls

[pvellanvtellae]

After season 3 we don't even see her reading :( I felt so inspired to read when I saw her reading and it might be a little detail but it was such a big part of her character.

[ohheyLeighannn]

At the end of the day, Rory is a character whose life has been made up by writers. Don't let that affect your own life.

[urvashikumra]

See the thing is, Rory didn't burn out because she studied too hard in highschool, the downfall occured because the older she got, the less Lorelai sheltered her and thats when you start to realize that the more freedom she gains the more she doesn't underestand how to navigate it. She didn't burn to a crisp because of trying hard, she failed because when she finally was given the ability to do whatever she wanted with her life, she overestimated her own abilities and her own eq. Gilmore Girls has always been a show really close to my heart because I learn a lot from Rory, she is kind of like my reality check. Lorelai really did the best she could while raising Rory but the more she loosened the leash, the more you dig into the personality that Rory has been sheltering her whole life, studying hard and preparing for your future are only going to get you so far but at the end of the day Rory's downfall developed from an area of entitlement. The more prep schools and fancy galas she went to, the more she felt like she deserved every opportunity, every ounce of respect, and when she didn't receive that or received something on the opposing end of the spectrum (Mitchum's review over her during the internship), the more it hurt her and the more she felt a need to rebel and act out because she felt entitled to his praise and felt like if she couldn't have what she wanted, the world should have to suffer.

[rebekahhutchins]

How not to be Rory... don't get handed everything in life and then refuse to see that you are privileged and then refuse to ever listen to any criticism without freaking out. Ohh also don't be selfish and explain why it was ok to sleep with a married man. Think you'll be fine.

[ilariaf.]

I feel like it’s partly Lorelai’s fault. From the start she always excused Rory’s bad behavior and she was told so much both by Lorelai and her grandparents that she was special and gifted to the extend where she became entitled and egocentric. Gilmore girls is a perfect example of how babying your child and feeding up its ego a little bit to much can result in deeper consequences once it grows an example of this could be Rory dropping our of college fighting with her mom and changing the entire course of her life because someone critisised her ! Of course she’s told she’s this wonderful human being who can never do anything wrong and once she steps into the real world she cracks. If rorys character development was an intent from the writers to show how privilege and entitlement can ruin a person then I think it was genious and well done, if it was just lousy writing then it’s kind of disappointing. Guess we’ll never know

[untitled]

What was also disappointing was Lane Kim’s story, my god i related so much to her as I was a huge nerd for music and lied to my parents about being in bands and it’s extremely depressing that the writers just ignored her character arc because everyone knows lane never wanted to settle down so early!!! 😭 i wanted to see lane become a successful independent woman on her own terms! Not at the expense of just settling down with the first guy near her! 😭 zack was such a bonehead, he broke up the band and essentially ended lane’s dream and she ends up with him!?? How? Does this make any sense?

[leonardoives]

Personally I think rory's development wasn't bad or makes her a bad person, I used to be very frustrated with how the writers wrote her character arc until I grew up. I ended up dropping out of college after studying so hard to get a BSc to be an artist, I ended up being a tattoo artist instead of a biologist despite dedicating so much time and energy into my studies. Life doesnt turn out the way you expect it too, she ended up going to yale not Harvard, and ended up being an author instead of a journalist. She grew up thinking she was going to be one of the greats because everyone that was apart of her life as a child told her she was special and unique, she had to face that reality of living in a world where everyone is unique and special. Imagine if rory did end up going to Harvard, never dropped out and became a journalist who worked at the NY Times. Im sorry but that would have been so boring, so predictable. Yes Rory definitely does not appreciate her privilege and can act questionably like cheating on Dean with jess, sleeping with a married man and sleeping with an engaged man and being generally overall self centered. But at the same time she does need flaws because that's realistic.

[JAUNEtheLOCKE]

For anyone feeling discouraged by the downfall (in a way) of Rory, here’s how you can shift your perspective of it: she’s not a staple story, she’s a cautionary tale. She’s showing you that, even if you start out well, the minute you forget your “why” (or, rather, minutes— one bad moment won’t be the end of the world) you will start going downhill and may disappoint your past self. You must keep going and take care of yourself, overcome problems, take no’s as guides to try again in different ways. Be kind to yourself and honor your passions and plans. Things will go wrong but you need to be flexible and adapt to the new reality, not give up because it’s too hard. Keep your values close to you and have patience and perseverance. Identify with Rory and try not to turn out like how she turned out. Change the ending of the story, be the version of Rory you wish she turned out to be.

That’s what kinda helped me 🌻