"I shall grow old...But this picture will remain always young. If it were I to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that...I would give everything!...I would give my soul for that!" (Wilde 28).
Plot point! This is the turning point for Dorian Gray; we see how seriously he take age now after Lord Henry's influence. Shortly after this, he snaps at Basil for judging him(only in jest) on his appearance. When Dorian's morality begins to change later in the novel, we will be able to come back to this and see ground zero. I do not blame Dorian for his jealousy of the painting; I actually feel very badly for him. I believe in his situation, after the bliss of ignorance has been stollen away, I would begin to have the same thoughts and feelings. If I were beautiful I know I would want that beauty to last forever; being young and seeing the possiblility of in a blink of the worlds eye, I could be the most elderly of the elderly, I never want my youth to end.
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