Who has read The Picture of Dorian Gray?

Question

Can anyone tell me his internal problem?

Answer 1

Whose? Dorian's? Dorian's is that inside he grows more and more evil while outside he stays the same, possibly in part because the evil within doesn't show on the outside, only on the painting.

Answer 2

Nothing is easier: vanity.

Dorian Gray lived for his own beauty and when he got a chance to keep his youth 'forever', he jumped at it without giving much consideration to the consequences. Over the decades that followed, the vain soul within the man whithered as much as his portrait's image did; he began to care nothing but for himself and poison leaked from that festering inner boil, diabling even the very consicence within him.

The picture ages and distorts with each defiling sin he commits, and the character ends up hurting everyong whom cares about him. Could not he have used the time to cure cancer? Some noble art to pursue? Rid the wrold of pollution? No... he merely lives to please himself and dabble in every imaginable nasty thing on earth.  

It is highly interesting to me that he ends up not being able to to view the portrait (it has become so vile); in reality, folks that far gone into the dark side seem unable to see what it is they have become. I think you would like the book well. Worth reading.

You can find out some cursory information at the link below.

Answer 3

I agree with Meredith Greene 100 % Vanity and nothing more.

Anna del C.

Author of "The Elf and the Princess"

and "Trouble in the Elf City"