The Picture of Dorian Gray

Synthesis

Extraordinarily handsome young man with finely curved scarlet lips, frank blue eyes, crisp gold hair. Has a finely chiselled nostrils, a chiselled throat, and a plastic throat. His face has all the candour of youth and youth's passionate purity. He looks like a young Greek martyr, with a rose-red youth and rose-white boyhood. His hair is rebellious and curly, tangled with gilded threads. His eyes are bright and can deepen into amethyst. He has a wonderfully beautiful face, with a look that makes one trust him at once. He is described as being made out of ivory and rose-leaves, like a Narcissus. Later, his face remains unchanged, with the same bloom of boyhood and unstained purity of youth, even as he ages.

Synthesis

A painter with a rugged strong face and coal-black hair. He has an intellectual expression. He is described as having a marvellous bold touch in painting. He is a young man, an Oxford friend of Lord Henry. He has a habit of tossing his head back in an odd way. He is grave and deep-voiced.

Synthesis

Tall, graceful young man with an olive-coloured face and worn expression. He has a pointed brown beard, and his hands are cool, white, and flowerlike. He has a low, languid, musical voice. He has heavy, opium-tainted cigarettes. He has a graceful wave of the hand. His eyes are dreamy and languorous. He has a romantic, olive-coloured face. He has a subtle smile. He has a dark, crescent-shaped eyebrows. He has brown agate eyes. He has a sweet melancholy smile.

Synthesis

A girl hardly seventeen years of age, with a little, flowerlike face, a small Greek head with plaited coils of dark-brown hair, eyes that are violet wells of passion, lips that are like the petals of a rose. She has a shy grace and startled eyes, something of the fawn in her. Her voice is very low at first with deep mellow notes, then like a flute or distant hautboy, then with wild passion of violins. She has a childlike look, winsome fanciful ways, and shy tremulous grace. Her body sways like a plant in water, the curves of her throat are like a white lily, her hands seem made of cool ivory.

Synthesis

A young lad with rough brown hair, thick-set of figure, with large and somewhat clumsy hands and feet. He is not so finely bred as his sister. He has a sullen, heavy youth, coarse, ill-fitting clothes. He has a strong sense of the danger of Sibyl's position. He is sixteen years old. He has a rough, stern son. He has a sullen mouth. He is a short, thick-set man.

Synthesis

A faded, tired-looking woman with thin, bismuth-whitened hands. She has a coarse powder daubing her cheeks. She has dry lips. She wears a tawdry theatrical dress. She has a shallow secret nature. She has a tattered lace handkerchief.

Synthesis

An extremely clever young man, very stern and rather pale, with coal-black hair and dark eyebrows. He has a look of contempt in his steady searching gaze. He keeps his hands in the pockets of his Astrakhan coat. He is an excellent musician, playing violin and piano.

Synthesis

A genial if somewhat rough-mannered old bachelor. He has bushy white eyebrows. He wears a rough shooting-coat, smoking a cheroot.

Synthesis

Pretty, with wonderful eyes. She has white hands and full red lips. She is clever, too clever for a woman. She has a wonderful eyes.

Synthesis

A very clever woman with what Lord Henry described as the remains of really remarkable ugliness. She is an old lady.

Synthesis

Dorian's valet. He is impassive, with a placid mask of servility. He has thoughtful, treacherous eyes. He is half-dressed and looking very drowsy when woken.

Synthesis

A florid, red-whiskered little man, with fat freckled hands. He has a shiny forehead.

Synthesis

Внешность в тексте не описана, but she has a curiously shrill voice.

Synthesis

A hideous Jew with greasy ringlets, an enormous diamond blazing in the centre of a soiled shirt, and an amazing waistcoat. He has an air of gorgeous servility. He is a monster.

Synthesis

A young man with smooth yellow hair. He is listless and weary.

Synthesis

A girl in a village, beautiful and wonderfully like Sibyl Vane. She has a white face at the window, like a spray of jasmine. She wears cotton dresses and large hats. She has a laugh like a thrush singing.

Synthesis

The duchess's brother. He is a shooter.

Synthesis

A curious woman with vague forget-me-not eyes. Her dresses always look as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She is usually in love with somebody. She tries to look picturesque but only succeeds in being untidy. She has a thin lips and a nervous staccato laugh. She has straw-coloured hair. She looks like a bird of paradise that had been out all night in the rain.

Synthesis

An old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen into bad habits of silence.

Synthesis

A Radical member of Parliament, with tight lips. He looks supercilious.

Synthesis

A lady of admirable good-nature and good temper, of those ample architectural proportions that in women who are not duchesses are described as stoutness. She has large hands.

Synthesis

A perfect saint amongst women, but so dreadfully dowdy that she reminded one of a badly bound hymn-book.

Synthesis

A most intelligent middle-aged mediocrity, as bald as a ministerial statement in the House of Commons.

Synthesis

An overdressed woman of forty-seven, with a hooked nose.

Synthesis

A pushing nobody, with a delightful lisp and Venetian-red hair.

Synthesis

A dowdy dull girl, with one of those characteristic British faces that, once seen, are never remembered.

Synthesis

A red-cheeked, white-whiskered creature.

Synthesis

One of those middle-aged mediocrities so common in London clubs who have no enemies, but are thoroughly disliked by their friends.

Synthesis

The butler. He stands blinking in the sunlight.

Synthesis

Dorian's valet later in the book. He is pale as death after the murder.

Synthesis

The housekeeper, an old lady in a black silk dress, with old-fashioned thread mittens on her wrinkled hands. She is garrulous.

Synthesis

Dorian's grandfather, an old and loveless man. He had hated Dorian for his strange likeness to his mother.

Synthesis

Dorian's mother, an extraordinarily beautiful girl. She was romantic. She had a Lady Hamilton face and moist, wine-dashed lips. She is described in a portrait with vine leaves in her hair, purple spilled from a cup, carnations withered but eyes wonderful.

Synthesis

Dorian's guardian. He is sure to be furious about the engagement.

Synthesis

Lord Henry's sister. She is perfectly charming.

Synthesis

The duchess's husband, a jaded-looking man of sixty.

Synthesis

Bournemouth's eldest son, quite delightful.

Synthesis

A charming woman.

Synthesis

Внешность в тексте не описана, but she is described as being décolletée and having had four husbands.

Synthesis

The head-keeper at Selby Royal.

Synthesis

The District Coroner.

Synthesis

A pianist.

Synthesis

A singer.

Synthesis

A doctor who prescribes for Lady Narborough.

Synthesis

The person to whom Dorian sends a wire about the yacht.

Synthesis

The man at Richmond who supplies Selby with orchids.

Synthesis

Lady Narborough's chef.

Synthesis

A figure in a portrait: with powdered hair and fantastic patches, saturnine and swarthy face, sensual lips twisted with disdain, delicate lace ruffles over lean yellow hands overladen with rings.

Synthesis

A figure in a portrait: proud and handsome, with chestnut curls and insolent pose.

Synthesis

A figure in a portrait: in a gauze hood, pearl stomacher, and pink slashed sleeves. A flower in her right hand, left clasping an enamelled collar of white and damask roses. Large green rosettes upon her little pointed shoes.

Synthesis

A figure in a portrait: in gold-embroidered red doublet, jewelled surcoat, and gilt-edged ruff and wristbands, with silver-and-black armour piled at his feet.

Synthesis

A figure in a portrait: described by Francis Osborne as one who was 'caressed by the Court for his handsome face, which kept him not long company.'