The authors made him ugly, but gave him what they thought were good intentions. In the popular appropriation of the title, his ugliness became what seemed an all too apt metaphor for his attitudes and goals, and their consequences. The authors failed to understand their own accomplishment. They fostered a popular, communal re-writing of “Dorian Gray,” demonstrating the validity of Lord Henry’s proposition – “It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.” In this version (as in Wilde’s), the portrait in the attic (in this case, “The Man of Good Intentions”) is ultimately of no avail. What you see is what you get.