you have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvellous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid.
Dorian’s love for the actress is extremely shallow and selfish. He never really loved her in the first place.
"I wish she were ill," he rejoined. "But she seems to me to be simply callous and cold. She has entirely altered. Last night she was a great artist. This evening she is merely a commonplace mediocre actress."
That’s a rather harsh thing to say about someone you claim to love.
Yet she was curiously listless. She showed no sign of joy when her eyes rested on Romeo. The few words she had to speak— Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, Which mannerly devotion shows in this; For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss— with the brief dialogue that follows, were spoken in a thoroughly artificial manner.
She’s turned out to be a disater. How will Dorian react to his expectations not being met.
d. This marriage is quite right. I did not think so at first, but I admit it now. The gods made Sibyl Vane for you. Without her you would have been incomplete."
The painter just wants Dorian to be happy in the end, even if that’s not him.
It was here I found her, and she is divine beyond all living things. When she acts, you will forget everything
Will she be able to live up to such an expectation. The way he describes her, she sounds heavily and untouchable. In a way, that’s how Dorian was initially perceived.
Lord Henry, upon the other hand, rather liked him
Henry seems to serve as a foil for Dorian.
"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered," said Mr. Erskine; "I myself would say that it had merely been detected."
Didn’t think that they would acknowledge that truth about about America.
"It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it,"
They think that women keep wanting to leave America because it is so perfect, but that feels short sighted.
but between you both you have made me hate the finest piece of work I have ever done, and I will destroy it. What is it but canvas and colour?
Ruined the image of perfection that Basil created for Dorian Gray.
"Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul.
All influence means giving away a part of yourself to others. It’s rather similar to the painting.
only two eras of any importance in the world's history. The first is the appearance of a new medium for art, and the second is the appearance of a new personality for art also.
Art is everything to Basil. In the end, it all connects back to his art.
the young man whose personality had so strangely stirred me.
Hints at possible gay feelings towards dorian gray.
A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say when he was a boy of eighteen
A possible distaste towards religion. Lack of originality in the church system.
. "No, I won't send it anywhere."
Possible point of pride, or small sense of power since he controls the fate of his art.
sudden disappearance some years ago caused, at the time, such public excitement and gave rise to so many strange conjectures
Why did he disappear and where did he go. Were there threats on his life or was it due to personal matters?
Well, don’t get sore.willy: What are you trying to do, blame it on me? If aboy lays down is that my fault?
In a way, it’s both of their faults. Willy’s affair and the betrayal of Biff’s trust utterly destroyed Biff, but Biff was not blameless either. He chose to completely give up and throw his future away.
When this game is over, Charley,you’ll be laughing out of the other side of your face. They’llbe calling him another Red Grange. Twenty-five thousanda year.
Willy feels entitled to this success and is extremely over confident. It sounds like he believes that path of success will be easy for his family.
What purpose? Some stranger’ll come along,move in, and that’s that. If only Biff would take this house,and raise a family . . .
Is Willy resentful towards Biff because he got a later start in life? Biff didn’t rush to reach the ‘American Dream’ that Willy expected of him.
You wait, kid, before it’s all over we’re gonna geta little place out in the country, and I’ll raise some vegeta-bles, a couple of chickens . . .
Wasn’t this Biff’s dream? Now that Biff is trying to get what Willy considers a real job, is he actually listening to what he said. Did Willy want to live on the country side all this time.
I slept like a dead one
Could this be foreshadowing for the future? Was Willy thinking about suicide the previous night?