chapters 6-the end

In chapter 6 the the characters Lord Henry and Basil talk about Dorian's engagement to Sybil. Basil is very concerned that she will bring him down. I keep wondering why everyone in this book is so impulsive. Lord henry's words imply to me that it's an experience that he would like to have since he cant recall being engaged, and i began to wonder back then did they do things just to do them? Dorian seems to think that delightful things happen randomly. He continues to go on and on about how pretty the girl is and whatnot which gets on my nerves a bit since he's rambled about it for the last three chapters. Basil seems to be very upset about dorian's marriage, for reason i dont know but i think he might be gay.

In the next chapter it got alot more interesting. Sybil's performance of Juliet was awful. This was funny because it was the first time that Basil and Lord Henry saw her, and she seemed to not be able to act. They thought she might be ill but she was just pretending to act bad because she had gotten bored of the theatre. Dorian went to talk to her after the play and she told him this. He broke up with her because he thought she was stupid and nieve, claiming that she killed his love for her. It seemed that he only liked the way she acted and that he didnt really like her. After he got home he noticed that the picture had changed it started to look evil.

I'm starting to think that his wish that he made in the first chapter had come true. He wished that he would never age and that the picture would age instead. Because he looked at the painting and found that it had indeed altered. I wonder if this means that he's immortal...that he cant die. In the 8th chapter Dorian began to start thinking about how rude he was when he broke up with her. He felt bad so he wants to marry her. When he tells Lord Henry this, and he tells him that she is dead. Apparently she killed herself by drinking some acid and died instantly. Come to find out that Dorian thinks that he murdered her with his words. Right after he wrote her a letter apoligising and telling her that he loved her. Lord Henry starts making him feel bad by telling him that his marriage would've been awful anyways. It sucks that when someone is down that other people make them feel worse. If this story was a play it would've been a tragedy. Even worse than any Shakesphere play. Sybil must have been really torn to kill herself...and i feel like i have been in her place before, like i can relate to how she felt before she died.

Even though his love killed herself Dorian decides to go to the opera with lord henry. This is very weird to me beause if my fiance had killed herself i wouldnt have gone out with my friend the same day, but i guess lord henry, being so witty, convinced him to go. Lord Henry gets on my nerves the way he talks to dorian right after sybil dies he starts talking about how fake she was and stuff which sucks because i wouldnt have wanted to hear someone say that to me if i was in that situation. But Dorian tells him that he is his best friend. I would've been so mad i would'e cursed him out. Like i said in my last response i think Sybil's brother is going to try and kill Dorian, especially now that she is dead. But i am not so sure that he is going to die since he doesnt seem to get old.


The next day after his fiancee died dorian is visited by Basil the painter, who claims that Dorian has changed and morphed into lord henry. Dorian gets mad at Basil and tells him that he is already "Consoled" and that he doesnt need any sympathy. Basil gets upset about the change that he has made in his personality. He starts to ask about the Painting and where it is claiming that he wants to see it. Dorian says that if he looks at the painting that he will never speak to him again. Dorian finds out that he wants to exibit the painting and he freaks out. Dorian Gray asked him why he said he wouldnt exibit in the first place. Basil asks him did he find something different about the painting. Then it all unfolds.

Afterwards Dorian Gray goes to hide the painting in the schoolroom thinking about what sins he will commit will cause the painting to become a corpse. He does this very secretively. Then after he locks the room he returns to read a book that lord henry has left him...he seems be becoming hedonistic more and more. The book was accopanied by a newspaper clipping about Sybil Vane.



After this it seems that Dorian Gray changes dramatically to the end of the book. The influence of this book given to him by lord henry has become a very negative effect on him. He cant keep away from this book and he spends his time either reading it or being drunk and looking at stuff. The only thing he really thinks about is the book or the painting. In the 13th chapter he kills basil!!!! It was awesome. Finally this book gets good. He committed it out of anger but it was not premeditated. Then afterward he gets a dude named Alan Campbell to destroy the corpse he wrote him a note that made him do it. I wanted to know what it said but the author kept this secret. They burned the body with nitric acid.


Like i said before Sibils Brother starts stalking him and Dorian becomes very scared. He meets him at a bar or something and threatens to kill him but he doesnt because he sees that his face looks the same. Saying that the mad who was responsible for his sisters death was near forty. Twards the end of the book
Dorian wants to become "good" so he starts attending church and what not but in the end it ends tragically as Alan Cambell also commits suicide, Syibils brother dies, and as Dorian tries to destroy the painting...he also dies. He becomes old and the portrait hanging on the wall was as everyone last saw him.

I liked the book...it took a while for it to catch on but when it ended i realised how great it was.

Dorian gray chapters 1-5

I read 4 chapters of dorian gray and so far it's somewhat boring but i am waiting for the action to happen. So far they have introduced a few main characters amonst tons of other characters but there are 5 characters that have stuck out to me so far. The first is Lord Henry a charming man who thinks very higly of himself. He's a friend to Basil the painter who did the portrait of Dorian Gray... a gorgeous young man who seems to be the center of attention in this book. His character sticks out to me alot not only because he's supposed to be gorgeous, but because he's a bit amusing because he seems like the typical 20 year old guy but in a different century. Another character that seems interesting but i havent gotten to chance to really get to know her is Sybil Vane. Who's an actress at a theatre run by a jew whom Dorian falls in "love" with.

In the first chapter we got to meet 3 main characters and it was really interesting because it seemed like Basil and Lord Henry were homosexual. I thought this because Oscar Wilde led me to think that these 2 guys were calling Dorian Gray handsome and stuff, and because of the fact that Basil said that he must see him everyday or he couldnt be happy. This was very weird to me. Maybe they are a bit gay. But as the book progrressed this confusion subsided. But as i began to really think about it maybe this book really showed the first homosexual characters in british literature. Idk...it's just a thought.

Another thing i found interesting in this novel was the characters feelings on Americans. They seem to have no idea what america is actually like and they just assume stuff it's kinda halarious. Because Lord Henry was conversing with his uncle about someone getting married to a American and they start talking about "american dry goods" and someone asks what that is and they say "American novels" I thought that was amusing.

At the end of the 4th chapter i learned that Dorian Gray was getting married to Sybil. It confused me because in the 5th chapter Sybil's mother Mrs. Vain said that she was stupid to marry him and that she didnt even know his name. Personally i wouldnt marry someone right off the bat that i didnt know his name, no matter if he was rich and handsome or not. I thought it was very sweet that her brother is overprotective of her, even though he's 16 years old. He even went to far as to say that if he ever did her wrong that he would kill her...which was problably going way to far. Then after he said that he went to talk to his mother and asked if she was married to his father She said no, and he left saying that his mother only had one child to look after now. Then i began wondering how could a 16 year old possibly support himself in those days.

This book is very good so far but i am really interested to see whats going to happen. The story hasnt really kicked into motion yet. I think someone is going to die, and i might not be right but i think it's going to be Dorian. I think he's going to mess up with Sybil and get killed by her brother.