Narrative

 Gilmore Girls

The concept of narrative is to do with storytelling and focuses on how a story is structured, its character types, conflict, and theme.

The premise of the plot in Gilmore Girls is a dramedy centering around the relationship between a thirty-year-old single mother and her 16-year-old daughter living in a small town. They show their everyday lives filled with drama and self-growth. 

Gilmore girls explore themes of love, relationships, family, and choices. The contrasting mother-daughter relationship of Emily/Lorelai and Lorelai/Rory becomes a defining theme of the show and shows how female relationships are viewed. 

The narrative is structured around Lorelai Gilmore and her relationships with the people she loves. Lorelai and Rory both find love interests, which is what the first season is mainly about. However, Lorelai has more trouble sticking with her relationships and has trouble choosing what's best for her, constantly running away from situations.

The narrative is built around Lorelia's conflict with her mother and her trying to escape her roots. She loves freedom and having the ability to make her own choices while her mother is the total opposite and likes structure. They constantly clash with each other. Parents always want what's best for their children; but that doesn't necessarily mean that's what the parents think is what's actually best. Their relationship shows a realistic family dynamic: Everyone is right, depending on what “right” means in their own eyes.  

Every character in this movie is their own antagonist as they do stuff that may hurt themselves or others. Loreli constantly hurts herself when it comes to relationships and has commitment issues. Her daughter Rory is innocent but tends to run away from problems, making the situation worse.  One of the most obvious antagonists is Lorelie's mother. She always goes against her daughter's ideas, making it a common problem during the season.