In “The Lady, or the Tiger”, the author’s use of conflict between the princess and herself shows that she actually loved him, and would not send her love to the death. In this quote we learn that the princess knows a key detail that the man does not, “ She knew in which of the two rooms, that lay behind those doors, stood the cage of the tiger, with its open front, and in which waited the lady.” The princess took the initiative to find out what was behind the door. If ‘fate’ was to decide, which they believed it did, she would have let him open the door with the tiger because he was guilty of the accused ‘crime’. However, she took the initiative to find out which of the doors held either to change his fate. This quote shows her feeling toward
