Do you think Lorelai is internally or externally controlled?
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Do you mean are her choices products of her circumstances or does she create her circumstances through her choices?
Umm to be difficult, I'll have to say both.
In terms of her relationships she's always been very much in control and has sabotaged them by not wishing to compromise - Max (no thought to how he'd fit in), Jason (refusing to tell her mother), Luke (refusing to move house) and then Christopher (refusing to have a post wedding party, move house or seriously entertain the idea of a family). So her relationships are internally controlled. Even with her parents she very much chose when they would and wouldn't be in her life.
As to her life, because of Rory she's also externally controlled. Her decisions about where to live and having to go to her parents to get money for Chilton showed that for Rory she was willing to in a sense
allow herself to be externally controlled, provided it would benefit her daughter.
I think overall though she's too feisty and independent to not be largely internally controlled. Remember she left her parents' house with a 2 year old to make her own way in the world. If that's not an egregious screw you to her circumstances, I'm not sure what is.