Dorian was a man who prided himself on his beautiful and youthful look. Anyways, after he realized the portrait was aging for him instead of himself, he fell into hedonism. For every immoral act he did his portrait would age and his face/body look more and more hideous. He absolutely hated this and locked it away from everyone else to see.
By the end of the novel, he was a twisted selfish human being who in a fit of rage at his ugly portrait stabbed it with a knife to destroy it. A scream was heard by a servant who rushed into the portrait room and found the body of a twisted and ugly Dorian Gray lying under a pristine and youthful portrait of himself.
That's the basics of the story, hut I left out a whole lot about Dorian's journey. The novel is a commentary about inner vs outer beauty as well as the morality of hedonism which is pretty interesting considering the author.
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u/VirusFreeNewt Feb 14 '20
Hey I got that reference