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Chapter 20
Characters:
Dorian Gray
Summary
Dorian walks home, admiring the beautiful evening. He overhears someone whispers his name, pointing him out and hates it. He no longer wants anyone to point him out. He was tired of people knowing him. Once he gets home, he finds his servant waiting for him and send him to bed. He muses over the things Lord Henry had said about him earlier. He wonders if Lord Henry is right that no one can change. He longs for his boyhood again and the freedom he had in his boyhood.
He contemplates the portrait he had Basil paint of him, how he wanted to have a token of his youth to always look at it. He picks up the mirror Lord Henry had given him once that has cupids all around it. He stares at himself and remembers words in a letter someone had wrote to him who loved him too much, “The is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.” He continues to stare at himself and suddenly becomes angry. He throws the mirror to the ground and stomps on it, hating his own beauty because his beauty is what had ruined his life.
Favorite Quotes:
“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold.
The curves of your lips rewrite history.” ~Narrator
“He loathed his own beauty, and flinging the mirror on
the floor, crushed it into silver splinters beneath his heel.
It was his beauty that had ruined him, his beauty and the youth
that he had prayed for. But for those two things, his life
might have been free from stain. His beauty had been to him
but a mask, his youth but a mockery.” ~Narrator
“Through vanity he had spared her.
In hypocrisy he had worn the mask of goodness. For curiosity’s
sake he had tried the denial of self.” ~Narrator
Questions
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