Lady

Tiger

· She really loved him, so she would do what is best for him · If their souls are one, she wouldn’t send him to the tiger: “saw by that power of quick perception which is given to those whose souls are one” (478) - he doesn't hesitate when he goes to the door and he "understood her nature" (478) · Last thing said is “And yet, that awful tiger, those shrieks, that blood” (480) · -she is semi-barbaric, not wholly barbaric. She can't follow through in the end.

· “Would it not be better for him to die at once and go to wait for her in the blessed regions of semi-barbaric futurity” (480) · like daughter like father: “had it not been for the moiety of barbarism in her nature” (477) · “How her soul burned in agony” (480) · “But how much oftener had seen him at the other door” (lady door) 480 · “her soul at a white heat beneath the combined fires of despair and jealously” (479) · “she had lost him, but who should have him” --she was really jealous of the maiden standing behind the door "Often she had seen . . . this fair creature throwing glances of admiration upon the person of her love, and sometimes she thought these glances were . . . even returned." (478)

Introduction: thesis

1. In “The Lady or the Tiger?” Frank Stockton appears to leave the ending ambiguous. He never directly tells the reader whether the princess chooses the door hiding the lady or the tiger. The reader, however, can interpret the ending by evaluating the evidence. It is clear that she chose the ______ because . . .

2. 3 reasons (one paragraph per reason)

3. conclusion