Gets people interested
Dorian, just like a car crash, has people asking questions, and has people talking and interested.
- "Dorian Gray? Is that his name?" Lord Henry page 6
- "And how did Lady Brandon describe this wonderful young man?" Lord Henry page 9
- "'Mr. Dorian Gray? Who is he?'... 'that is what i have come to learn, Uncle George.'" page 36
Cause pain
People can't look away
Some times in a car crash, people get emotional scaring or trauma.
Just like a car crash, Dorian's looks make people stare.
- "A cry of pain broke from the lad's lips, and he leaped to his feet,tearing his hands away from Lord Henry's grasp." page 101
- "Oh, Harry, how I loved her once! It seems years ago to me now. She was everything to me.Then came that dreadful night...when she played so badly, and my heart almost broke. I said I would go back to her. I felt I had done wrong. And now she is dead. My God! My God! Harry, what shall I do? You don't know the danger I am in, and there is nothing to keep me straight." page 103
- "This young Adonis, who looks as if he was made out of ivory and rose-leaves" page 5
- "Yes, he was certainly wonderfully handsome, with his finely curved scarlet lips, his frank blue eyes, his crisp gold hair." page 18
- "You are a wonderful creation" page 23
- "You have a wonderfully beautiful face, Mr. Gray" Lord Henry page 18
Cause death
Sometimes car crashes can cause death. in a way Dorian had an influence on Sibyl Vane's death.
- "So I have murdered Sibyl Vane," said Dorian Gray, half to himself,"murdered her as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife. Yet the roses are not less lovely for all that.The birds sing just as happily in my garden. And to-night I amto dine with you, and then go on to the opera, and sup somewhere,I suppose, afterwards. How extraordinarily dramatic life is! If I had read all this in a book, Harry, I think I would have wept over it." page 103
The character Dorian Gray is just like a
car crash
Attract People
Just like a car crash, Dorian can attract people towards himself.
- “We would have spoken to each other without any introduction. I am sure of that. Dorian told me so afterwards. He, too, felt that we were destined to know each other.”- Basil page 9
The Picture of Dorian Grey
By Oscar Wilde
Changes
peoples lives
Car crashes can change someones life, so does Dorian Gray.
- "Because, while I was painting it, Dorian Gray sat beside me. Some subtle influence passed from him to me" Basil page 12