Grey's Anatomy Character Analysis

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The show Grey’s Anatomy is written by Shonda Rhimes, who is an African American women aged forty six who holds a bachelors of arts from Dartmouth college and a masters of fine arts from the University of Southern California. Rhimes has said that she always had an affinity for storytelling and that the time she spent as a hospital volunteer while in high school really began her to develop an interest in hospital settings. After the events of 9/11 happened Rhimes began to think more about motherhood and stayed home a lot taking care of her baby, during which she spent a bit of time watching real life surgeries on tv and this helped fuel what would become the pilot episode of greys Anatomy. The show grey’s Anatomy follows the professional, personal, …show more content…

Additionally the character Arizona Robbins is a lesbian and has been portrayed as such since she came to be on the show, now the addition of this aspect of her character definitely extends the target audience of the show due to the fact that Robbins becomes a main character and shows that Robbins character is equal to any other character, as well as the fact that Robbins has a very strong personality and is a good teacher and mentor for her residents. Robbins’ main love interest throughout the majority of the show is Callie Torres who is an Orthopedic surgeon who unlike Robbins started the show as a resident and has always been very vocal about her opinions and beliefs which is why many people like her character, additionally the character starts the show by dating men, even marrying a man before the get a divorce a little bit into the marriage and after this she explores the world of dating women before finally concluding that she likes women the same way that she likes men which is when she starts seeing robbing. Callie’s

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