The more we reflect upon this question, the harder it is to
answer. It involves a study of the human heart which
leads us through devious mazes of passion, out of which
it is difficult to find our way. Think of it, fair reader, not
as if the decision of the question depended upon yourself,
but upon that hot-blooded, semi-barbaric princess, her
soul at a white heat beneath the combined fires of despair
and jealousy. She had lost him, but who should have
him?
-"The Lady, or the Tiger?"
Frank R. Stockton
What is the main question the author is building
through suspense?
O Will the citizens demand that the princess's lover be
allowed to live?
O Will the king let the princess marry her lover, or
make him marry a courtier?
O Will the princess choose to let her lover live, or send
him to his death?
Will the tiger kill the princess, or will it kill her lover?