Comprehension

-Dorian
Gray has a particular style and way of dressing, which is considered very fashionable.
He cares a lot about the details and decoration of his house, that he likes
showing to his guests.

-According
to him Life is the greatest of the arts.

-He is an
ideal for educated young men because he combines both the culture of a scholar and
that of a citizen of the world. Besides being an "arbiter elegantiarum", Dorian
wants to elaborate a new philosophy which has its realization in the "spiritualizing
of the senses".

-" The
worship of the senses" made men feeling frightened about their natural instinct
and their passion but this let men remain like animals instead of developing in
them a new spirituality and a fine instinct.

-The aims
of this new Hedonism is to recreate life by saving it from the ugliness of Puritanism.
Moreover he focuses on the experience itself, in living every single moment of
life, which is more important than the consequences of actions.

Interpretation

-Wilde uses a third person omniscient narrator but I don't feel his
presence because he doesn't intervene in the novel with comments or personal
opinion. Anyway I guess that Dorian's new Hedonism mirrors the ideas of the
author.

-With this
sentence Wilde means that life passes quickly, it lasts only few instants, so
it is important to teach men to live every single moment.

-Wilde quotes
Pater in lines 65-66, where he talks about experience and life.