Literary Post- Eposition

     Dorian Gray is basically a model for Basil Hallward's art. Lord Henry goes to Basil's while he is painting a portrait of Dorian and meets him for the first time. The two become very good friends because Dorian loves Henry's theories. As he keeps listening to the theories they start to set in his mind, one of them being, your beauty is here for a short time. When Basil is finally finished with the portrait Dorian is envious of it because it will stay young forever while he will age. He throws a huge fits and wishes that the painting would age but he would keep his beauty forever. After listening to Lord Henry's Philosophy's about life he realizes he needs to live a little bit and goes out and meets Sibyl Vane and falls in love with her. The setting is in London in the victorian era/ late 1800s or possibly close to beginning of 1900s.