TPoDG 6

"'Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good. When I am with her, I regret all that you have taught me... the mere touch of Sibyl Vane's hand makes me forget you and all your wrong, fascinating, poisonous, delightful theories" (82).

Ouch. That was harsh, Dorian. He sees through Henry; I was wrong. I really believed he was too naive to truly notice the influence Henry had over him, but it seems that he has ether just realized it because of his love for Sibyl, or he has truly always known it and simply never cared. I think that Dorian will never be able to break away from Henry, though, because of his platonic affections for him. Dorian seems attached to Henry's wonderful theories, and he will never be able to break away, no matter what kind of influence Sibyl has over him, and I believe that influence will fade with time.

"The real drawback to marriage is that it makes one unselfish. And unselfish people are colorless... Still, there are certain temperments thatmarriage makes more complex... I hope that Dorian Gray will make this girl his wife, passionately adore her for six months, and then suddenly become fascinated mby someone else. He would be a wonderful study.' 'You don't mean a single word of all that, Harry, you know you don't. If Dorian Gray's life were spoiled, no one would be sorrier than yourself'" (78-79).

These are two views of Henry's, and I do not know which one to believe more firmly in, because I trust they are both correct. He is undoubtable interested in what Dorian will do with his life. Henry is so curious about human life, and Dorian specifically since Dorian can life out his wildest desires because of his beauty. However, Henry cares for him very much. Henry wants him to be happy, or else he would not have influenced him so much to do whatever he wanted that would make him so. Henry would probably be very sad if Dorian felt ruined because of Henry's prodding. However, whether that is because his experiment would fail- If Dorian felt ruined because of Henry, he would never listen to him again- or because Dorian would be sad because of his choices, I am not yet sure.