The Cold Blooded Dorian - Dorian Gray Chapter XIV-XV

(p. 186-211)

What I like…

A cup of hot chocolate! I like to sip thick and sweet hot chocolate; and a cup of chocolate had also opened chapter XIV, when Dorian sipped it calmly from the cup his valet gave him in the morning after he killed somebody in his house!

What it's all about...

After committing the murder the night before, Dorian would like to make the corpse vanished, to scrap all evidence. He asked a chemist help, one of his ex intimate friends. Allan--the chemist--rejected to help Dorian at first, but Dorian blackmailed him to do what he wanted, so that he was forced to do it.

Dorian did not feel anything towards the dead man who once his dear friend. And 24 hours after that tragedy, he appeared in a party as elegant and calm as usual. Inside he was in a terrible horror, but outside he was polite and charming. He hardly touched his dinner, and when Lord Henry occasionally asked him where he were last night, Dorian began to feel nervous. He went home and destroyed the coat and bag of the dead man--the last evidence left, then made a night travel by hansom to unknown destination...

My random thoughts...

It was always like that when a man's soul corrupted. At first he did a sin and struggled with it, wondered how can he had done it. After a while he could convince himself that he had not done something wrong by doing a sin. After that, he had a strong need to silence his conscience, and he would kill if it is necessary. After that he would live a double life, always worried that others might see his sin. Those were the stages, and let's just see where it will all end for Dorian Gray. A very interesting psychological study that have suddenly reminded me of Emile Zola's Therese Raquin...

What made me still curious...

What was Dorian found in the Florentine cabinet that made him shuddered?

What was Dorian’s threat on Allan that the victim got so scared and finally agreed to help the murderer vanishing the corpse? Had it been one of his secret?