Gilmore Girls follows single mother Lorelai Gilmore and her daughter,
Rory, living in the fictional town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut. This is
a town filled with colourful characters. Ambition, education, and work
constitute part of the series' central concerns, telling Lorelai's story
from pregnant teen runaway and high school dropout to co-owner and
manager of the Independence Inn.
Rory's transition from public school to the prestigious Chilton is
similarly followed, exploring her ambition to study at an Ivy League
college and to become a foreign correspondent. The show's social
commentary manifests most clearly in Lorelai's difficult relationship
with her wealthy, appearance-obsessed parents, Emily and Richard
Gilmore, and in the interactions between the students at Chilton, and
later, Yale University.