The Lady or the Tiger? Setting—the king’s arena The prisoner is sent to the arena for loving the princess According to the king’s system of justice, each prisoner has to open one of two doors Under the king’s justice system, a person’s guilt or innocence is decided by his or her own choice The king’s daughter knows what is behind each of the doors

The king’s daughter knows that the lady is the girl she hates The young man “knew in his soul” that his lover would tell him which door to pick The king’s daughter might point to the “tiger’s” door, because she thinks her lover will be better dead than married to the girl she hates The princess casually motions to the door on the right The ending is left upon the reader to decide