Character description 2- Sibyl Vane

Sibyl Vane is a beautiful actress who naively fell in love and killed herself because of the results of that love.
Sibyl is a very sweet girl who just wants to be freed from her prison of acting. She is signed with a contract to act, and she must stay there until her time is up. She is engaged to Dorian and says cheerfully, “’I love him because he is what Love himself should be’” (Wilde 65). Sibyl thinks that Dorian is a great man who will come and sweep her off of her feet, and so she is so excited to be with him, calling him the personification of Love. However, when Dorian leaves her, “her little hands stretched blindly out, and appeared to be seeking for him” (92). Instead of growing angry, “she wept silently, and made no answer, but crept nearer” (92). Dorian had hurt her so badly, she was like, “a trampled flower” (92). Before this had happened, she had been a cheerful girl. She had been so in love with Dorian that, “her love was trembling in laughter on her lips” (69). She loved Dorian and needed him so much that she killed herself rid be rid of the pain he had inflicted upon her.
Sibyl is a flower. With her gentle beauty and sweet personality, she seems to open, like the first day of spring, each day. She takes in the world like flowers take in the sunlight, and glows. With the anger of Dorian, her defenses fall like petals in the snow, and she died like the brown stems flowers become when the cold comes.
Sibyl Vane is like the original Little Mermaid, who kills herself to save the one she loves because, in strange way, she saved Dorian from being tied down in marriage.