Dorian Gray Women

Dorian is the central figure of the story, everyone else lives their lives around him. Both men and women wish to be in his presence. The women fall in love with him and the men want to be in his company. Dorian eventually fulfills the stereotypical female role in the novel. Despite there being other women in the story Dorian is the one who receives all the attention and it is Dorian who ruins the hopes and dreams of men, not the women in the story. The women in the story are only there to facilitate a need to show the true beauty of Dorian Gray. It is not just a group of men who desire to be around Dorian, it is also the women. Dorian disregards all the attention he receives because of his obsession with his own personal beauty and the destruction of his own beauty in the portrait. Women are simply used as a tool to demonstrate how beautiful Dorian is, and are portrayed as being weak and naïve. …show more content…
Sibyl falls deeply in love with Dorian Gray, and is willing to commit her life to him only after knowing each other for two weeks. Sibyl is willing to give herself to Dorian, but Dorian only cares about her acting. Dorian desires the beauty of her acting. When Sibyl cannot give Dorian what he desires, he loses his fascination with her. Sibyl Vane takes her own life because Dorian cannot have what he wants from her, which is perfection in her acting, a beauty that can stand with his own. Sibyl is willing to go this extent because of her desire to be with