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Gilmore Girls Lore: Paris Geller

‶ I am not cutting out to deal with people. I was made to exist in a lab or an operating room or a bunker somewhere with a well-behaved monkey by my side ″

—Paris^[src]

Paris Geller is a main character on Gilmore Girls. She is portrayed by Liza Weil.

Character

Paris is a brutally honest, very driven person who is not afraid to bring up awkward conversations, often resulting in people running away. She is besides one of the smartest people at Chilton and perchance even Yale. She volition become to whatsoever length to get into her dream higher, Harvard. An over-achiever, she seeks out every position she can hold at Chilton, becoming both editor of the school paper, the The Franklin, and president of the student council.

Madeline Lynn and Louise Grant are her two seemingly oldest friends in high school, though she is very different from them. Madeline and Louise intendance more nigh boys and fashion, than they seem to intendance well-nigh schoolhouse. Rory and Paris take an interesting relationship throughout the series. They outset out every bit rivals, equally Paris feels threatened by Rory, just slowly become best friends (with several roadblocks) and roommates for the rest of the series. Paris does not become accepted into her dream schoolhouse Harvard. She then gets accustomed to Yale.

Chilton

Rory meets Paris on her first mean solar day at Chilton. Paris doesn't want to lose her superlative of the class standing, and feels that Rory could be the one to challenge that position, after sneaking a peek at Rory's grades. Paris has a huge crush on Tristin, with whom she went to school since third grade (who only had eyes for Rory), and her mom pays her cousin Jacob to take her to the school dance in their sophomore year. Paris even breaks the news of Lorelai and Max's relationship just to go anybody to terminate talking near her parents' (very public) divorce. Afterward a while, Paris comes to view Rory every bit less and less of a threat and the two fifty-fifty collaborate on occasions. When Paris gets an A-minus, she pleads for a reluctant Rory to study with her. Rory offers her to stay for dinner (because Jess drops past) and when a fight with Dean almost breaks out, Paris covers for Rory, knowing that Rory went out of her way to help her. Paris and Jess likewise meet for the first time and contend passionately nearly their literary favorites.

Paris forms a somewhat steady friendship with Rory from then onwards and asks Rory to be her vice-presidential candidate for pupil council. During their senior year, their "professional" relationship endures further conflict when Francie Jarvis manipulates Paris into thinking that Rory bankrupt her trust by telling about her boyfriend, Jamie, who she met over the summer in Washington D.C. at the leadership camp she attended for pupil government. Paris and Jamie accept the adjacent step into their relationship, leading to Paris worrying if she made the wrong conclusion and turns to Rory for back up. She is rejected from Harvard and has a meltdown live on C-Bridge, assertive that Harvard punished her for losing her virginity. She spends the next 5 days in bed, watching soaps, refusing to phone call anyone or see what other schools take accepted her.

With some serious advice from both Rory and Lorelai, Paris starts to seriously consider what school she should attend: Yale, Columbia or Princeton. She accepts Rory beingness made valedictorian over her (later researching that they don't necessarily do besides well in later life). During graduation she swears she does not recognize half her grade and when Headmaster Charleston hands her her diploma and congratulates her, she tells him "No hard feelings". She and Rory say their goodbyes and hug while admitting that they spent well-nigh of the time antisocial each other.

Yale

Paris surprises Rory on her commencement solar day of Yale equally her new roommate. Paris had arranged it afterward her life motorbus, Terrance, told her that her "journey" with Rory wasn't quite over. She joins the Yale Daily News and ends upwardly breaking up with her fellow Jamie for an older man, Asher Fleming, who is a professor. Paris and Rory attempt spring break and effort their hardest to follow the crowd: Getting wasted, entering "assistant" eating contests, and ending in Paris kissing a disgruntled Rory. Asher dies over the summer between their freshman and sophomore year and Paris spends the beginning of her sophomore yr grieving for him and sets up a wake. She makes fun of "Farmer boy" (Dean) re-entering Rory's life and begins dating Doyle McMaster, the editor of the Yale Daily News. Paris is shocked and outraged when Rory drops out of Yale, and turns straight to Lorelai where she admits Rory was the only person that e'er listened to her, challenged her, and will lose motivation without her.

She is made editor of the Daily News but becomes likewise power crazy and won't let annihilation go to impress without it being perfect by her standards, which drives the rest of the staff of the paper to oust her. She is replaced with Rory, and a furious Paris kicks her out of the apartment. Rory has no other choice but to move in with her boyfriend, Logan Huntzberger. Rory and Paris eventually become roommates once more (along with Doyle), this time, with a binding lease so that Paris can't move every item of Rory's out into the hall once again. In preparation for graduation, Paris institutes "Functioning End Line," with Rory, an obsessive programme designed to maximize their choices after graduation. This succeeds across her dreams, and she is accepted to multiple law schools and medical schools.

Paris is immediately distressed about finally having to brand a option that volition have such a profound issue on the balance of her life. To this terminate, in order to think rationally and clear her plate of whatever undue influence, she breaks up with Doyle. Doyle nevertheless, will not accept her breakup and vows to follow her wherever she goes. Paris and so decides that she would be going to medical schoolhouse every bit she had always dreamed to be a doctor. At their graduation she tells Rory that they're now on their ain but Rory is however gonna practice such great things with her life. Rory tells her that she hasn't been able to shake Paris off for years and no matter where they end up, they will still remain friends for a very long time.

Relationships

Rory

Tristin

Paris has an unrequited crush on Tristin, who is in dear with Rory,

Asher Flemmings

Parents

Quotes

Stay out of my mode. I will make this school a living hell for you

– The Lorelais' First Mean solar day at Chilton

All I had to practise was motion a decimal point and none of this would've happened

– There's the Rub

Well, how nice it must exist to be yous. Possibly anytime I'll stumble into a Disney movie and suddenly be transported into your torso, and later living there awhile, I'll finally realize the dazzler of myself. Simply until that moment, I'thousand going to go in there and I'1000 going to get a Puff. Now get out of my way

– Like Mother, Like Daughter

Are you going to move? Or do you lot need a 5, 6, 7, viii?

– The Big Ane

Who in the globe deserves to go to Harvard more than me?!

– The Big 1

No, Rory. This great man was not brought down by my vagina

– Written in the Stars

I need her to be at Yale. Rory has been my only real competition since she showed upward at Chilton. She's the just one who's ever challenged me. She's my pace car. She's my Björn Borg. Without her I'll get lazy. I'll fall apart. I'll have frosted hair and dragon lady nails, I'll achieve nothing. I'll go my mother

– New and Improved Lorelai

You have no correct to exist repulsed by my sex life!

– Just Not as Beautiful as Pushkin

I wanna live my life and then I can read an in-depth biography about myself in later years and not puke

– To Live and Let Diorama

Sick people freak me out

– Simply I'm a Gilmore!

I am not cut out to bargain with people

– Friday Night'south Alright For Fighting

Yous, Logan Huntzberger, are nothing just a ii-bit, spoiled waste of a trust fund. Y'all offer nil to women or the world in general. If yous were to disappear from the face of the globe tomorrow, the merely person that would miss you is your Porsche dealer

– I'm OK, You're OK

Yeah, yeah, life's not fair. Can you let her off the hook, for god's sakes? In example you didn't know it, Rory is a great person, and she does not deserve to exist treated this fashion. Anyone should experience lucky to telephone call her a friend. I know I do, and you're throwing away 1 of the all-time

– To Whom It May Business organization

You're gonna exercise such great things with your life, Rory

– Unto the Breach

Trivia

• Paris is left-handed.
• Paris has mentioned that she is Jewish.^[ane]
• Paris speaks fluent Portuguese, Farsi, and Mandarin.^[2]
  • In Flavor 2: Episode 16 Paris is shown talking to her nanny (who speaks Portuguese) over the telephone, but she speaks to her by and large in Castilian instead of Portuguese. At the terminate of the scene she even says "Hay mucho mac and cheese," which means "There'due south a lot of mac and cheese" in Castilian, suggesting she can speak information technology as well. ^[3]
• She has a craft corner.
• Her first kiss was with Tristin in the 6th grade subsequently he got dared.
• Near the end of her stay at Yale, she could speak Chinese, Farsi, and a smattering of aboriginal Aramaic.
• Lorelai Gilmore, Michel Gerard, Sookie St. James, Doyle McMaster, Logan Huntzberger, Brad Langford, and several Chilton mothers are frightened of her.
  • She frightened Brad so much, he transferred schools.
• She pretended to have a beat out on Jess to stop an statement between Rory and Dean^[3]
• She never ended up finding out Rory's PSAT scores all the same the viewer knows that Rory'south examination scores were amend than Paris'. Both the verbal and the maths scores were ten points college than Paris'
• Paris thinks Richard Gilmore is proficient looking. Rory tries to ignore this comment.^[4]
• Earlier working Rory's DAR effect, she had never had any non-volunteering task experience.^[ii]
  • Volunteered at a infirmary since 4th course, led report groups, taught sign language, ran a suicide hotline, and manned a runaway shelter. She figured that she would have a life after Harvard.
• She keeps anti-feet pills at the lesser of her pocketbook.
• Her trust fund doesn't kick in until she turns 25.
• Sick people freak her out. Ironically, she'southward pre-med^[five]
• Her Bat Mitzvah dress had menorahs sewn on the collar^[i]
• Her cousin took her to Chilton's wintertime formal during her sophomore year; her mother had to inquire him, and Paris had to give him gas money to make him really practise information technology.^{[half dozen]}
• She has read The Iliad at least 3 times.
• At that place is a running gag throughout season six where Paris is always cut off Luke
• She plays Monopoly with her nanny when her parents are out of town; she ever beats her.
• She lost her virginity at xviii to her get-go boyfriend, Jamie, who was a Princeton man.^[7]
• Ten generations of her family have gone to Harvard.
• Her mother was a pinnacle educatee at Harvard.
• Has kissed Rory once.^[eight]
• Her male parent was the head of a pharmaceutical company; when her parents divorced, the details were published in the newspapers.^[ix]
• She doesn't have a close relationship with her parents; when she gets rejected from Harvard, she thinks she could feasibly fool her parents into thinking otherwise.
• Her parents weren't there to see her graduate from Chilton, but instead her nanny and her children.^[10]
• Lorelai took the photo of Paris getting her diploma from Yale, in example her parents didn't come
• She is lactose intolerant and cannot eat mac and cheese.^[three]
• At Yale, Paris double-majored in political scientific discipline and biochemistry.^[11]
• Paris has the same middle and last name as Friends character Ross Geller.

Photos

Paris Geller/Gallery

Notes and references

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} The Third Lorelai
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} We've Got Magic to Do
3. ↑ ^{3.0 three.1 three.2} There'due south the Rub
4. ↑ Ted Koppel'southward Big Night Out
5. ↑ .But I'm a Gilmore!
6. ↑ Rory'south Dance
7. ↑ The Big One
8. ↑ Girls in Bikinis, Boys Doin' the Twist
9. ↑ Paris is Burning
10. ↑ Those Are Strings, Pinocchio
11. ↑ http://gilmoregirls.wikia.com/wiki/But_Not_as_Cute_as_Pushkin

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