The Lady Or The Tiger, By Frank R. Stockton

In the short story “The Lady or the Tiger” by Frank R. Stockton. He gives a story of a barbaric king and his daughter. Stockton gives the reader a story of how the king’s daughter falls in love with one of the kings courters. Stockton created this imaginary kingdom to gives the reader a story to read but all a mystery at the end. Well there is some evidence that the story will end one way and even more evidence that the story will end another way. Well I’m not going to tell you the story right now ill just say believe the story will end with the accused opening the door to the tiger. In a imaginary kingdom ruled by a barbaric king. The people admired the king in the kingdom. “his nature was bland and genial; but whenever there was a little hitch, and some of his orbs got out of their orbits, he was blander and more genial still, for nothing pleased him more then to the crooked straight and crush down the …show more content…
“She knew in which of the two doors that lay behind those doors, stood the cage of the tiger, with its open front, and in which waited the lady.” (17) The power of gold and a woman’s will had brought the secret to the princess. The young man entered the arena and bowed to the king keeping his eyes on the princess. “He understood her nature, and his soul was assured that she would never rest until she had made plain to herself this thing, hidden to all lookers-on, even to the king.”(17) The princess told the young man which door to go to by a swift movement of the hand to the right. She had thought about which door she was going to send the young man too. “How in her grievous reveries had she gnashed her teeth, and torn her hair, when she saw his start of rapturous delight, as he opened the door to the lady.” She also thought about him opening the door to the tiger. “Would it not be better for him to die at once, and go wait for her in the blessed regions of semi-barbaric