The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only novel written by Oscar Wilde. This gothic style story revolves around the protagonist Dorian Gray and his friends Lord Henry Wotton and Basil Hallward in the setting of London, England in 1890. The story is that one day Basil talks about a cultured, dignified and attractive gentleman named Dorian Gray to his friend Lord Henry. Lord Henry, interested in Basil's infatuation with Gray, begs Hallward to introduce him to the boy. Basil on the other hand does not believe this is a good idea, as he believes that Lord Henry will negatively affect Dorian. In the last sitting of Basil's self-proclaimed masterpiece painting of Dorian, Dorian and Lord Henry finally meet and while Basil is busy painting, Dorian. The story reaches its climax when Basil confronts Dorian about all the rumors spreading around town about him and his children. actions. Mr. Gray who wants to share the secret of his always ruined painting shows Basils. In response Basil tells Dorian that he must repent of his sins for his soul to return to balance. Dorian, furious at Basil's response, commits the ineffable crime of killing him by force of truculence. The falling action and ending of the novel is Dorian trying to gain balance in his life and coming to the conclusion that if he destroyed the painting it would bring him inner peace and he would no longer have to deal with the torment the painting brought him . His actions, although have reverse actions, instead of destroying the image he ends up killing himself. The final scene shows Dorian's servants finding a disfigured and unrecognizable Dorian with a knife stuck in his heart and the stunning photo of their master on the table. There was the satin wood bookcase filled with his dog-eared school books. . . How well he remembered everything! (Wilde). However, the room is later described as “a faded Flemish tapestry, a painting with a curtain, an old Italian chest and an almost empty bookcase. . . this was all it appeared to contain, besides a chair and a table” (Wilde). There are big differences between the two descriptions of the same room. However, Wilde provides no reasoning as to what might have caused the change in space and the loss of books from the library. Tearle provides a fascinating insight into what might have caused the differences. The only "person" other than Dorian who has access to the bookcase, as well as the chest, during that important interval, is not a person at all: that is, the image itself, the image of Dorian Gray. It is as if the corrupting presence of the portrait had spread its insidious sin throughout the room, destroying (or at least partially destroying) everything linked to childhood and