Selfish A. When the second act ended there was a storm of hissing, and Lord Henry rose from his chair and put on his coat. “She's really beautiful, Dorian,” he said, “but she can't act. Let's go'” (p. 61) i. Dorian's ego is hurt when Lord Henry is displeased with Sibyl's acting. Dorian probably felt it reflected back at him. B. “Without your art you are nothing. I would have made you famous, splendid, magnificent. The world would have adored you and you would have carried my name. (Page 61)i. Dorian's ego once again comes into play when he believed that he could make Sibyl famous, not only through her acting but because she would bear her name. ii. Sybil's fame would have brought more attention to Dorian. C. “…looking now at the evil, aged face on the canvas, and now at the young, beautiful face laughing back at him from the polished glass. The sharpness of the contrast increased his sense of pleasure. He fell more and more in love with his own beauty, more and more interested in the corruption of his own soul. (Page 93) “He mocked the deformed body and the weakened limbs.” (Page 94) i. It is Dorian's ego that has put him in this difficult situation, where the portrait has revealed his sin. His concern from the beginning was his own