The Picture of Dorian Gray KEY LITERARY ELEMENTS SETTING The novel is set in London at the end of the nineteenth century; one chapter is set at Dorian Gray's country estate, Selby Royal. CHARACTERS MAJOR CHARACTERS Basil Hallward - the artist who paints the portrait of Dorian Gray. He is so enamored of Dorian Gray that he feels himself dominated by Dorian. His art changes when he paints Dorian Gray. He is eventually murdered by …showed first 75 words of 5182 total…

…showed last 75 words of 5182 total…his father, an ambassador to Madrid. When his father didn't get the ambassadorship of Paris, he quit in a huff and Lord Fermor quit with him. From them on Lord Fermor had spent his life devoted "to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing." He pays some attention to the coal mines in the Midland counties, "excusing himself from the taint of industry on the ground that the one advant