TWO YOUNG GAY MEN IN SEARCH OF A DORIAN GRAY PORTRAIT

A brief study of character development: Two young gay men engage in a conversation about their world views. One resembles Lord Henry Wotton, the character in Oscar Wilde’s novel The Portrait of Dorian Gray, the aristocrat with a hedonistic worldview: that beauty and sensual fulfillment are the only things worth pursuing in life. The second one uses the aging portrait as the basis for his decisions, arguments, responds in a different manner, placing his inner desires and hopes in the context of the world around him, and reflects upon both of them as they determine his actions.