" The evil, cynical lord Henry Wotton came to a studio of his friend, painter Basil Hallward. They talked about women, friendship, life and about one beautiful young man (Dorian Gray) who is a model of the painter. Basil didn’t want Henry to see noble Dorian Gray and didn’t want to exhibit a picture of Dorian for a special reason.

“I know you will laugh at me,” he replied, “but I really can’t exhibit it. I have put too much of myself into it.” (pages 8 and 9)

But one day Lord Henry met Dorian in the Basil’s studio. The painter was painting Dorian and Lord Henry was talking to Dorian about youth and life. These were new things and opinions for Dorian. In his face there appeared an unusual interesting expression and Basil caught this new expression in the picture.

When he saw it he drew back, and his cheeks flushed for a moment with
pleasure. A look of joy came into his face, as if he had recognised himself for the
first time. He stood there motionless and in wonder, dimly conscious that Hallward was speaking to him, but not catching the meaning of his words. The sense of his own beauty came on him like a revelation. He had never felt it before. (page 38)

“How sad it is!” murmured Dorian Gray, with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. “How sad it is! ”I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June…If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that- for that- I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not to give! I would give my soul for that!” (pages 39, 40)

I decided to write these two quotations because there is the most important point of the story and the reader can imagine what can happen further…Yes, a good boy is changing to a new person who likes his own beauty and youth and wants to try everything in the world, every passion.

Dorian loved a young actress and wanted to marry her. She was beautiful but very inexperienced. One evening she realized on the stage that real life is much better than plays. She was playing bad with a conviction that she would never live through her roles. But Dorian didn’t want this, he loved her only for acting, for her roles. He broke up with her, he told her many ugly things. (“You are shallow and stupid. My God! How mad I was to love you! What a fool I have been! You are nothing to me now. I will never see you again.” (page 121) )
Beautiful Sybil wasn’t able to bear this suffering, to live without him and committed suicide.
This is one of the events in Dorian’s life. What subsequent events could follow? What will happen at the end of this novel? I will not write it, the reader has to find it on his own."