Frank Stockton's The Lady Or The Tiger

Frank Stockton's "The Lady or The Tiger" finishes without a ending or it leaves us with a perplexing question. Whats behind the door? The tiger or the lady.ds We will start by creating a clear understanding of this complex story. In a kingdom close to Latin neighbors, lived a king who was barbaric. He was highly fond of justice, and would create random ways of enacting justices. One of his barbaric ways, was to place a man convicted of a important crime in the kingdom. In a arena, with two doors. Behind one door lays a beautiful woman who the convicted shall marry. While the second door lays a fierce man eating tiger.Based only on fate, if the convicted was innocent fate would let him live. He was guilty he would die. On a random day …show more content…
Among all the tension the courtier glanced at the princess. The princess made a slight jesture with her, right hand. Telling her lover to pick the door on the right. Some random time before the ceremony, of two doors. The princess has used some money to find out, which door layed the woman and tiger. After gaining the answer, the princess was overwhelmed by fear. But eventually she came up with a answer. And thats where Frank Stockton leaves us, open ended. Without any information on what layed behind the door, the princess choose for her …show more content…
To what layed behind the door's. Clsose to the end of the story, stocton wrote " But how much had she seen him at the other door! How in her grievous reveries had she gnashed her teeth, and torn her hair, when she saw his rapturous delight as he opened the door of the lady!" This quote clearly shows the reader that the tiger, was the princess choice. And a one more bit of information, The princess points to the right door. In the title, “The Lady or the Tiger”, almost everywhere in the story “tiger” and “lady” are in the same sentence, “tiger” is always on the