"The Lady or the Tiger?"

Written by Frank Stockton, "The Lady or the Tiger?" is the story of a princess who must make a fateful decision: send her lover into the arms of the princess' rival or send him to his death.

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Education

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• lady
• or
• the
• tiger

[sheldoal]

@Canhistoryismylife: Adagio for Strings. The movie Platoon used this music.

[randomislandgirl]

the ending really pissed of my english class.....love the story!!

[catchersmitt0]

Man, talk about treating women like property. Apparently they don't ask the lady if SHE wants to marry this person - who could be a violent criminal. And what if the criminal to be tested is a woman? Do they yank some poor fellow in to be the skank's husband?

[bismarket]

I would have liked HIM to think that she would try to save his life & out of love for HER he would deliberately choose the tiger only to find "The Lady". tl;dr She LIED!

[fancysugamama]

I think he would of chosen the tiger since she had hated the woman, was just like her father in terms of politics and characteristic, and had jealousy inside her. Her role makes the story so interesting since she had picked the faith of her lover but yet we have concluded in a hypothesis that she would of not wanted to leave her love in the hands of another woman and would of hurt less to leave the tiger, the question asked at the end left us all in shock and wanting to know whom the guy might

[fancysugamama]

When my teacher finished reading and the question was asked, everyone in my class got so mad -_-

[MindlessCandy2]

Which one came out of the door! I really wanna know! I'm trying out for a musical called "The Apple Tree", because acting and singing are two things that make up my quadrupal threat (acting, singing, dancing, modeling) ^_^, and I'm really into this. Anyways... I WANT ANSWERS!!!

[HDVideoTuts]

@brimhildur1 the ending pissed off me and my whole class......it doesnt say what came out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wtf

[HDVideoTuts]

@randomislandgirl lol mine tooo

[brimhildur1]

apparently this story pissed a lot of people off

[CrimsonDaffodils]

@CrimsonDaffodils The thought of doing so was torturous to her because she knew she'd have to do so. It wouldn't have been so torturous if she could push it out of her mind - "I'm not going to do that; I'll send him to the tiger." Instead, she'd agonize over sending him to his death.

[CrimsonDaffodils]

I think she chose the lady.

My reasons for believing so are simple. One, she went to the trouble of bribing people to get the information needed to lead him to the right lady. Two, if jealousy were enough to make her lead him to the tiger, she would not have thought about leading him to the lady at all; it was a constant thought in her head because she was trying to come to peace with allowing him to marry her rival.

[BlackLegion104]

The ending pissed me off after I read it.

It was so the tiger.