I used three articles that I found on bloom to help me with gathering ideas that I could use to write my essay on The Picture of Dorian Gray. The first article that I found was mainly an overview of the book. I chose it because of the characteristics it provides for Henry Wanton and Basil Hallward, two of Dorian's most influencing friends. It describes Henry as being the evil, devil character that helps Dorian realize his own beauty and persuades him to do bad things. But it describes Basil as being kind and artistic, a good influence that helps to balance out Henry's influence on Dorian. The second article I found more helpful. It talked about relationships found in the book. The realtionship I found the most helpful was the realationship between the book and art. It discussed how art and the characters in the book related, and it talked about how important art became in the book. Dorian and his picture, Sibl Vane and her artistic abilities, Basil and his portrait, Henry and his outlook on art, are some of the examples it talked about. The third article it talked alot about the murder of Basil. It describes Dorians portrait self as his "alter ego". It also discusses art, and how--if one looks to deeply into art--they might see someting they didn't want to see. I found all three of these articles very helpful.