Why Does Rory Dream of Madeleine Albright?

Rory is turning 21 in a few days in ‘Twenty-One is the Loneliest Number’ and Lorelai, though pouting about her dream to take Rory to Atlantic City to be playing 21 when Rory turned 21, is still not willing to reach out to her. Lorelai will help Rory when she decides she wants to return to school, and not earlier (immaturity we’ve talked about at length already). Anyway, Rory is dreaming that it’s 4:03 on her birthday and, instead of Lorelai waking her up like she does every year to tell her the story of her birth… it’s Madeleine Albright?!

Why Madeleine Albright, the first female US Secretary of State? Why would Rory dream that Madeleine was her mother? I get the whole “voice of your mother” thing, as a channel for Rory wanting to see her mother again. But I don’t understand why Madeleine Albright was that voice for Rory. Another powerful and respected woman in her life, perhaps? What do you think?



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