1. 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

2. 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