Loss of the Monster: From Horror to Hedonism in The Picture of Dorian Gray

Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian is what I\u27d like to be--in other ages perhaps, Oscar Wilde says of the characters in his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Letters 352). One cannot determine how flippant or serious he might have been in making that statement, but it nonetheless encapsulates one of the greatest difficulties in studying Wilde: determining where art and biography intersect in his works