I find it annoying when people act like Rory had some horrible “downfall”
She obviously didn’t end up being this super successful person like everyone in her life thought she would but she really isn’t doing horribly.
During the OS when she drops out of Yale people consider this a major downfall. I personally think it’s not that serious. I think she’s about 19 or 20 years old at the time?? Rory was a young college student who all of the sudden began to question if journalism was even for her. Mitchum was an AH and also the catalyst to this “breakdown”, but honestly I feel maybe she was already questioning it before. We see even early in college, she’s getting burned out from school and truly needed a break. She literally takes like 6 months off and goes back.
Her stealing the yacht was bad and honestly her biggest downfall the entire series including AYITL. But she eventually gets it together and does what she needs to do to clear her record and get back on track.
In AYITL she isn’t doing amazing but really not that bad. It’s honestly not that uncommon for early 30’s/late 20’s people to have a dip in their career. She clearly was holding jobs beforehand and it’s not like she was bumming around for 10 years. And she is still getting job offers throughout AYITL she’s just wanting to find a different path. Her ending up publishing a book she’s very fitting. And being pregnant at 32 isn’t some insane thing. Also, people like to compare her to Lorelai. We are forgetting they were 32 at very different time periods. It was much easier to get a job and pay your bills with that job in the early 2000’s compared to 2016.
I always loved how GG was realistic instead of idealistic.
I will state the obvious: stealing a yacht and having a history of affairs with men, specifically ex boyfriends, is Rory’s biggest flaw.
However I am more commenting on people who act like her CAREER took some insane downturn and she’s just this lazy bum who never did anything with her life when that wasn’t necessarily true. At the end of AYITL, Rory has work experience in her field, published a book, and just wants to take a different direction in her work.