Dorian Gray Summary

Dorian The plot of Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray carries the reader in several different and twisted directions. From the first chapter in which Dorian is a young man just beginning to understand adulthood to the gruesome murder of his friend Basil Hallward, the true ruthless attitude of Dorian Gray rises to the surface. A ruthless carefree attitude which resembles that of one whom he aspires to imitate, Lord Henry Wotton (Harry). However, Dorian soon …

…the villainous roll. Upon completion of this novel we almost wish Dorian became Harry, instead of the monster which he eventually evolved into. Still, Dorian took Harry’s words of pleasure and youth to a whole new level. Perhaps it is Dorian’s troubled youth and vicious grandfather which turned him into such an animal. Regardless it is a tragedy that one who once carried so much promise and potential became such a unlikely catastrophe.