When you give yourself everything, you give yourself nothing. Oscar Wilde paints a picture for the reader just like Basil Hallward, the painter in The Picture of Dorian Gray, the story of a young man's soul trading for eternal youth and the beauty of a portrait. Dorian's sins are painted on the canvas while his face is not marred by the horrible acts he commits. Dorian is a young, naive and innocent boy; with an impressionable nature that allows him to be seduced by Lord Henry's fantastic visions of life, love and beauty. Dorian quickly realizes the power his beauty possesses and hastily declares his desire to trade places with the portrait so he can be young and beautiful forever. In Dorian Gray and the Moral Imagination, Kristian Williams states that in Dorian's pursuit of beauty he "loses place of a larger goal: a beautiful life." (29). Williams argues that when Dorian indulges and pursues new experiences and excesses, his feelings dull and are taken for granted. If you fill a room with roses, sooner or later you won't smell them anymore. Dorian, indulging his every whim and desire to live a wonderful life, holds himself back from experiencing life, becomes paranoid, destroys his relationships, his reputation and himself. Dorian becomes obsessed with the idea that someone might find out. what is he hiding. His paranoia consumes him and his obsession prevents him from enjoying life. He goes to great lengths to hide the portrait himself and keep it away from prying eyes, giving up his country home and leaving parties early to make sure it was where it was. left him undisturbed. He was so crazy about the idea of ​​someone finding the photo and discovering his second…half of the card. Her face remained youthful, but as her age increased, her youthful appearance created controversy. He remained beautiful, but could only find superficial beauty. He wanted love, but just the idea of ​​love, experiencing the reality of it would definitely diminish the romance. In Dorian's last moment of hope for self-preservation, he tries to kill the hideous monster he had created, but this backfired, instead of freeing him from his indulgence of sins, he kills him and the original beauty of the portrait has returned. Works Cited Ross, Alex. "Misleading image." The New Yorker 87.23. (August 8, 2011): 64. General OneFile. Web.Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1993. PrintWilliams, Kristian. “Dorian Gray and the Moral Imagination.” Joint review 8.3. (Winter 2010): 26-33. Literary reference center Plus. Rete