Character Analysis: Lord Henry

Lord Henry Wotton is a very cynical man with a depressing view on life. Even at the beginning of this novel you can see how Lord Henry thinks. He is pushy and slighty rude and is always interested in telling people his opinion, but you never hear him listening to other's opinions. Lord Henry might listen, but if you notice, he shoots down the opinion with another one of his. An example of this is when Dorian goes to see Harry to tell him he is in love, but Henry basically says that love isn't real. Henry says that multiple women is better than one woman to love.

He is also very arrogant. He shows this by not even caring about Sybil Vane when she commits suicide. He wrote Dorian a letter that she committed suicide, but when he came to see Dorian he just switched the subject when Dorian started getting deeper into the conversation. Another example of him being arrogant and uncaring is when the "servant" who was beating the bushes to make the game move was shot, he just shrugged it off when Dorian asked if the servant was ok. He really only cared about Dorian when he fainted, and Dorian was his friend, so it wasn't too difficult for him to be kind.

Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. New York: Barnes and Noble Classics. 2003. Print.