After reading "The Lady, or the Tiger,” a reader might conclude that the princess chooses the tiger, because

The princess knows that the lady behind one door is someone she envies and hates, so jealousy could lead her to direct her lover toward the tiger instead. The story leaves her final choice uncertain, but this is the clearest reason among the choices for why she might choose the tiger. The other options do not give as direct a motive: dreaming of fangs or imagining an attack is not evidence that she chooses that door, and resentment toward her father is less specifically supported.

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