Oscar Wilde

For any Oscar Wilde fans out there:
I'm currently wrapped up in The Picture of Dorian Gray, and I love it. but Oscar Wilde completely confused me! The man is a complete paradox and I can't help but think that he's laughing in his grave right now. He was raised Irish Catholic and his parents were both experts on Irish folk lore- imagine, being a strict catholic and believing in fairy tales. His work certainly shows this discrepancy; his book of fairy tales have a Biblical feel and Christ inspired characters.
Only, his life doesn't begin to shed light on his work or his work on his life! He moved to England and worked to lose his accent. And began to immerse himself in society- where he became infamous.
Everything in his bio suggests that he was a typical foppish socialite. He cared only for fashion and parties. His various quotes suggest that his only hope in life was to become infamous and well known (which he certainly did). He even created a scandal when he developed a relationship with a young Lord. For which he was put into jail, tragically-
I can't imagine what jail would do to a man like Oscar Wilde. But his stories do actually hint something about him to readers- he wasn't the pansy everyone thought him to be. Especially in his Picture of Dorian Gray the reader can sense an ironic condemnation of the pointless socialite life that his characters lead. Which makes no sense!!!
He makes fun and even judges the men that I can readily say are very much (at least in bio) like himself. Which is why the man is a complete paradox. Evidence is even seen in his various quotes like,
"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."
" Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
"All art is quite useless."
"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. "
the man even talks in paradox. Perhaps we are to do as he says (in his novels) not as he does. Perhaps Oscar Wilde enjoyed being a paradox within a paradox. Perhaps there is a point to all his madness
"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
...or not.
But mostly perhaps he used wit and satire in order for him to laugh at the things that he found intolerable, even the things that he took part in. Maybe it is because he was raised on the discrepancy between fairytales and the Bible.
And lastly my favorite quote. Allegedly as he lied on his death bed ( in his last moments) in an old ugly inn room he told his friend,
"Either this wallpaper goes or I do" -the infamous Oscar Wilde