The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Plot "The Picture Of Dorian Grey" is the only Wilde's novel. Basil Hallward is a young artist fascinated by the beauty of Dorian Grey, another young man, whose potrait he dicedes to paint. Dorian, watching his image in the picture, realizes his own beauty and that time will lead him to ugliness, when the potrait will stay forever young. Under the influence of the aesthete Henry Wotton, he expresses a wish that the reverse was true. He also says that he will kill himself when his youth will fade. Scared by Dorian's reaction, Basil tries to destroy the work, but Dorian stops him. The successive months, Dorian become a Wotton's friend and starts ti go to the theatre, where he meets a young and promising actress: Sybil Vane. She falls in love with him, but he rejects her saying that he loves here only on stage. At home Dorian observes that this cruel behaviour warped the potrait's expression. Shocked he returns to Sybil and discovers that she had just killed herself. Thereafter he starts to act corruptly, while he stays young and his potrait changes monstruosly. At the end he tries to redempt his sinful soul destroying the picture, but in this way he kills himself.