The story, “The Lady and the Tiger,” leaves us with a puzzling question of which we are to determine the answer: “Who came out of the door- the lady or the tiger?” According to the events in the story, I think that when the man opened the door, he was to be greeted by the man-eating tiger. Many would say that the princess loved him too much to simply let him die. Yet, that could go either way because maybe she loved him so much that she would rather him go to “the blessed regions of semi-barbaric futurity,” and wait for her then to get married to another woman. When she even thought about seeing his face light up when the door revealed the fair maiden, the author says that:”her soul was at a white heat beneath the combined flames of despair and jealousy.” She loses either way in the present, so why not pick the option where she will have a chance to be with him again after life on earth?

Please proof read. It is for my 9th grade lit class. The story is “The Lady and the Tiger.”