Importance of being earnest

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After reading the first page of the first chapter (see link above), answer the following question: How is Dorian Gray changed by his reading of the yellow book? What role does the yellow book itself play in Picture of Dorian Gray? How does it constitute a mise-en-abyme (a mirror of a mirror), in this case, functioning to mirror the relationship between art and life that Wilde articulates in The Importance of Being Earnest (that art does not imitate life as much as life imitates art)?

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