Comprehension

• 
  Dorian Gray's
  lifestyle is a very fashionable and a charming one. He invited best
  musicians to charm his guests and his house is very decorated too

  
  

• 
  In his opinion life
  is the first, the greatest of the arts

  
  

• People
  saw in Dorian the true realization of an often dreamed type of
  person; in his person he combined scholar culture with perfect
  manner of a citizen; he wanted to elaborate a new scheme of life,
  even to creating a philosophy (in
  the spiritualising of senses its highest realization)
   

  
  

• By
  the "workship of senses" men are scared of passions and emotions

  
  

• Dorian's
  "new Hedonism" is based on re-creating and saving life from
  puritanism and it implies not accept any theory or system of thought
  that would involve the sacrifice of any mode of passionate
  experience.
  

  
  

Interpretation

• In
  this novel there is an omniscient narrator, not intrusive; the
  reader doesn't feel his presence because Dorian's ideas can be
  perceived by his acts, his way of living and what he thought so the
  reader has an active role in the novel

  
  

• Walter
  Pater is quoted at lines 65/66 when Oscar Wilde says: "Its
  ,ndeed, was to be experience itself, and not the fruits of
  experience, sweet or bitter as they might be".