What Was In The Door That The Youth Opened In The Lady Or The Tiger?

Today I will tell you about what was in the door that the youth opened in “The Lady or the Tiger?” by Frank R. Stockton. This page-turning fairytale starts off with the youth being in love with a semi-barbaric princess. Her father was a king who was also semi-barbaric and didn’t like him so he did what he did with other people who were accused of committing a crime, he put them in an arena in which the accused person would have to choose between two doors: one that contained a lady that they would be married to on the spot and the other door contained a ferocious tiger. Even though the author doesn’t come right out and tell you what was in the door, the youth most likely opened the door with the tiger because the princess knew which door contained which, she didn’t like the woman that he would be married to, and she was semi-barbaric so she would probably do anything to keep him from marrying her worst enemy.
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The narrator shows us this by saying “It was one of the fairest and loveliest of the damsels of the court who had been selected as the reward of the accused youth, should be proved innocent of the crime of aspiring to one so far above him; and the princess hated her.” The narrator is basically telling you that the princess hates that lady with a passion and hints that she would rather the youth be eaten by tigers than be married to the lady she despises so much. The narrator tells you that she would do something like that earlier in the story when the narrator says “This semi-barbaric king had a daughter as his most florid fancies, and with a soul as fever and imperious as his own”(pg.300). The narrator is saying that she is just as cruel and evil as her father. This is evidence that shows she has the guts to tell her lover to open the door with the tiger in it instead of the