The short story, “The Lady or the tiger,” is about a man that is in love with the princess, but she has a very protective father. Her father thinks he is not good enough for his daughter because he is in a lower class. Because of this he puts him in a trial. In the trial there are two doors, one leads to a bloodthirsty tiger and the other to the prettiest lady in the kingdom and has to marry her. He has to pick randomly. By doing this the King’s daughter does not get married with him.
The main theme of this story is choices and consequences. In the story the princess shows this theme when she has to decide the fate of the man. She has to decide if he dies or lives on. Both of them have consequences. The the tiger door’s downfall is that she will never see him again but the other door’s is that he will be with someone else and she might be jealous. This shows the theme choices and consequences.