Dorian Gray

I've decided to read The Picture of Dorian Gray first, unless I'm meant to read them simultaneously?

Going through it this time, the experience is much more relaxed, rather than reading for the sake of getting to the book's climax which I ended up finding out through the recent film version of the novel - disappointment. I'm able to take in the characters: the reserved and seemingly camp Basil Hallward - architect of the infamous drawing of Dorian Gray itself. Dorian Gray, the story's protagonist, initially naive, turned horribly sour by the bad man that is, Lord Henry Wotton, the closest person to the story's antagonist if you exclude Dorian Gray himself. Whey hey, how is that possible? A character that doubles up as protagonist and antagonist? Wilde loved paradoxes, oxymoron (one of the two) so it would be fitting his lead character embodies hero and villain, a juxtaposition present in many forms in the novel, forms such as the immoral and moral, the pure and the sinful.

(Caroline, does this make sense to you, or do I sound unanchored?)