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The main symbol represented in The Picture Of Dorian Gray is the ill-fated portrait itself. It symbolizes Dorian's soul and as it starts out with Dorian himself being spotless and with flower like beauty, so does the painting. But as Gray's soul darkens and is beaten to a pulp, so is the inebriating beauty of the portrait. First he notices a 'touch of cruelty twisted about the mouth'  (105) after he rejects and breaks down Sybl Vane's being and the glowing beauty on the canvas deteriorates more and more with the pace of  his own soul while his body stays beautiful. The painting symbolized Dorian Gray's own soul that he continued to be haunted by when it got filthier and filthier with his follies. He never attains release from the torture until he takes his own life.