Read these two sentences from "The Lady or the Tiger.” How her soul had burned in agony when she had seen him rush to meet that woman. . . .

And yet, that awful tiger, those shrieks, that blood!
What most likely is the author’s intended purpose in including the princess’s thoughts?

Explanation:

The whole point of the story is that you are not given an ending. You are not told which side of the princess won out. Was it jealousy of the woman who would ultimately get the her lover.

Or was the civilized part of her conscious of the tiger who would likely rip her lover apart.

Which would win: her love or her spoiled sense of "if I can't have him, no one can?"

wallop

to hot or strike with a hand blow

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