The extract is taken from the final chapter Of Oscar Wilde's The picture of Dorian Gray, written in 1890. The extract is set in Dorian Gray's house and in the street near it. The main character's death takes place in the penthouse, where he has put the painting. The extract can be divided in three sequences. In the first one the narrator wants to convey to the reader the desire of Dorian Gray to kill the portrait because it represents its soul and its conscience and he wants to erase his past. Also, Furthermore, the third person omniscient narrator makes the reader understand that Dorian Gray killed the painter of the portrait. Most of all, Oscar Wilde focuses on the inner side of Dorian Gray. To convey the message of the main character's fear of his actions, the writer uses figure of speech such as metaphors like the portrait, but also the telling technique and intertextual quotes as the bloodied knife that never seems clean, a reference to William Shakespeare's Macbeth. In the second sequence the narrator shifts his attention on how the external world reacts to Dorian Gray's action. To reach this goal and to make the reader feel more interested, the writer uses an onomatopoeic style(crash), the language of sense and impression to appeal to sense( e.g. crept out) and images like the great old house, linked to the past.3Therefore, the use of the image of the dark night and the bright candle refers to evil surrounding innocence, but also to the humans fear of the unknown. In the final sequence there's the conclusion, where's Dorian Gray is found dead and the portrait is again handsome. Here, the narrator describes the event by showing what's happening in the penthouse and by referring to the two figures by using a language that appeals to senses.