1. Tell us about the book's structure. Is it a continuous story or interlocking short stories? Does the time-line more forward chronologically or back and forth between past and present?
The book begins with a conversation between Lord Henry and Basil, a painter. Where Basil shows him his painting of Dorian Gray. That is where the story starts. The story has one flashback, what I remembered. That was at the first pages of the book, Basil telling the Lord how he met Dorian. The book interested me because of the time it is wrote in, 1890. The story took place in the Great-Britain, London, to be precise.

3. Think about the role that social class and/ or gender plays in the novel that you've read. What social classes are represented in the novel? To what extent is each class/gender depicted? How does class/gender influence the choices that are available to the characters and the decisions that they make?
What I see is that Lord Henry is a rich Lord, and what I also see is that he is interested in art. Basil, the painter, is a loved painter by Lord Henry, and a friend too. He is neither rich nor poor. He belongs to the upper classes of the painters in his region. The other person is Dorian Gray, he is wealthy and belong to the same social class as Basil. You see that the Lord belongs to a higher social class, that is one of the reasons why he has influence on Dorian. When Sybil fell in love with Dorian, Dorian is more wealthy then she is, Dorian broke with her. She is so upset that she takes her own life. What is in some way the influence of Dorian, indirectly.

4. If you could ask the author a question, what would you ask? What do you think he or she would answer?
The book ends with the suicide of Dorian Gray, that is why I’d like to ask this question. What kind of interpretation do you have on this?
I saw different interpretations for this, I hope one of these is yours.
The first one is that Dorian is suffering from his strong will to follow the aestheticism. This is more plausible, because you were one of the followers of the aestheticism.
The second one is that he is punished for living his life like a hedonist. In that way this book critics the aestheticism, what would be less plausible.
Another thing I hope is that it is ironically meant that Dorian says that he do not want to throw the knife into the painting, or ‘in himself’, and later he kills himself with the same knife, by throwing himself in to the knife.