User:Griffongurl13/Student Draft of The Picture of Dorian Gray

Background
Patrick Adcock writes about the characters and Wilde, saying that "[h]e writes that Hallward is who Wilde himself thinks he is, Lord Henry is who the world things Wilde is, and Dorian is who Wilde would himself would like to be - in other ages perhaps."

Style
Richard Ellmann complimented the book, saying that Wilde wrote as though it was easy, and that it seemed "elegantly casual, as if writing a novel were a diversion rather than a struggle."