That man, Basil Hallward, had created the degenerating title object, which comes to symbolize the protagonist.
At one point in this novel the protagonist sends his servant Francis to see Harden about some orchids in order to be alone with a man he had met at Lady Berkshire's the night Arthur Rubinstein played there. The protagonist is confronted in an opium den by a drunken woman who calls him "Prince Charming," which is overheard by James Vane. James' sister, Sibyl, had killed herself 18 years earlier after being jilted by the title character, who meets Lord Henry Wotton in the studio of a man he eventually stabs. That man, Basil Hallward, had created the degenerating title object, which comes to symbolize the protagonist. For ten points, name this novel by Oscar Wilde.
At one point in this novel the protagonist sends his servant Francis to see Harden about some orchids in order to be alone with a man he had met at Lady Berkshire's the night Arthur Rubinstein played there.
The {Picture of Dorian Gray}