- The yellow book influences Dorian throughout the years- he buys

multiple copies in different colors to match his mood

- People tend not to believe rumors about him because of his looks
- He regularly takes a mirror and compares himself to the painting
- He stops traveling because he is scared somebody may see the portrait
- Shortly, people start avoiding Dorian because of the rumors, but he is not
affected
- The” Yellow Book” has poisoned him, reading and rereading it
throughout the years
- He rejects the social conventions and lives how he wants to, but he is
influenced by the book
- Dorian tries to escape through different activities to keep the portrait at
bay and not think about it
- Character vs reputation – the painting absorbs his wrong-doings so people
keep talking to him
- Basil meets Dorian – he tells him about the rumors about him and says
that reputation is very important – Dorian dismisses them
- Basil wants to see Dorian’s soul -> Dorian says he has a dairy of his soul
and takes Basil to see it
- When he sees the portrait, Basil screams in horror – Dorian reminds him
of the prayer he made when Basil finished the portrait -> Dorian stabs
Basil, covers up his crime and goes to the front door and rings the
doorbell as an alibi -> he looks up the address for Alan Cambell
- Alan Cambell is a former friend of Dorian -> used to be inseparable, but
grew apart from arts and closer to biology
- At first, Cambell refuses to help Dorian get rid of the body but Dorian
blackmails him so he agrees -> after getting rid of the body, Cambell says
he doesn’t want to see Dorian again
- At a party, Henry asks what Dorian did after leaving his house and Dorian
started getting nervous and after a few claims of his activities he told
Henry that he can check his servants for evidence -> Henry doesn’t get
why he would care so much
- He leaves the party making excuses that he doesn’t feel well -> gets
home-> goes in a search for opium
- On the way to the opium den, Dorian thinks of what Henry told him when
they first met – curing the soul by the means of the senses and the senses
by the means of the soul -> opium can solve the problem and calm him
down
- As he leaves, a woman called Dorian “Prince Charming” -> a man grabs
him and pulls a gun on him – James Vane
- Dorian asks him to look at his face and James starts to believe that he
couln’t be the same Prince Charming from 18 yrs ago
- The same woman didn’t understand why James did not kill him and even
though she insisted it was Dorian, James couldn’t believe her
- At the Greenhouse – Henry mentions that Dorian used to be called “
Prince Charming” – Dorian is disturbed by this name and refuses to be
called like that again – Dorian fainted at the sight of James Vane
- His past is catching up with him
- Dorian stays inside for three days before joining a shooting in the estate’s
park
- The shooting has been cancelled because one of the gentlemen shoot
someone and he died
- Dorian sees the beater’s death as a bad omen and offers the gamekeeper
money for the dead man’s family -> he is relieved that the man who died
was actually a sailor – James Vane – and now he feels safe after seeing
his body
- Henry and Dorian are talking - Dorian wants to change his life but Henry
doesn’t want him to change –> he thinks that his sins will be washed if he
leaves the woman he talks to “as flower-like as he met her”-> Henry
mentions his divorce and Cambell’s suicide -> Basil’s disappearance –
when Dorian asks if Henry would ever consider Dorian killing Basil,
Henry says it’s too vulgar for Dorian to kill someone
- "What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose ... his own
soul?" – Dorian says that everybody has a sul and they can either destroy
it or improve it
- Henry admires the fact that Dorian hasn’t changed at all since he met him
– Dorian claims that Henry doesn’t know everything about him
- As Dorian walks home he hears people whisper about him – for once this
upsets him – he longs for his innocence and blames Henry because he lost
it – he breaks a mirror from Henry
- He thinks of the girl he intentionally did not spoil and wonders if there are
any changes in the portrait – he looks at it and it is worse than ever – he
sees the painting as the last evidence of Basil’s death – he takes the same
knife he used to stab Basil and stabs the portrait – the servants enter the
 room and see a beautiful portrait of Dorian and a ugly old man siting dead
next to it with a knife into his heart
- Imbalance between appearance and reality – temporary