The Murder Of Art From The Sou

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painting, he decides to get rid of this dreaded piece of art once and for all. Dorian takes the same knife that he killed Hallward with, and stabs the portrait of his older self. A sudden scream echo’s, leading the servants to his room a short time later. There, dead on the floor, is an old unrecognizable man who they find out is Dorian. The only evidence that this thing was once Dorian Gray was by the rings on his hands. He lay there, dead on the floor, with a knife stabbed through his heart. Hanging on the wall was a portrait of his, but it was him in his younger years-his youth.
He spent his last living moments as a young person, as he had since the picture was painted. He died as an old man, his real age, “withered, and wrinkled.” These details included by the author at the books conclusion explain that while Dorian stabbed the picture, he himself was stabbed to death through the heart, and the picture and the person changed places. The picture, now ...

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