Comprehension

>>He is a rich man and he wants to use his money to follow his passions.

>> The greatest of arts for Dorian Gray is Life.

>>He is an ideal because he wants to become the perfect man and other people see in him the perfect man coming from the exclusive schools and universities. He is an ideal also for mode because he uses  so sought-after and refined clothes that his style is followed from other young people. Being consulted on matters of fashion is not enough because he wanted to create a new lifestyle with his philosophic principles.

>>The worship of senses has often been decried because normal people can’t understand sensations that are bigger than them.

>>The new Hedonism purpose is to re-create life: abandoning the puritan principles and accept the other theories.

Interpretation

>>The narrator is in 3^rd person, omniscient and intrusive. The intelligent reader is aware of it because there are a lot of opinions of the writer and some excursuses that can’t be quoted from something said.

>>Oscar Wilde means that life is all composed of moments and every moment must be lived at his highest power.

>>Wilde quotes Pater from line 65 to line 68.