Dean wanting a housewife but one who doesn’t want to be one.

Dean is a nice enough boyfriend to Rory although they aren’t well suited. One thing that’s quite clear is that he’s not all the keen on her going to Harvard, he doesn’t encourage it, and he says he likes the idea of a woman doing a lot of cooking for her man.

Yet when he gets Lynsey, a woman who wants to be a housewife, he doesn’t appreciate her and complains about her not working so all the financial burden is on him.

Why would he want an intelligent aspirational woman to give it up to be his wife, yet a woman who actually wants that life, isn’t enough for him?