Resolutions to stories make the readers feel complete. Great stories usually end in likewise endings. Endings of the stories are somewhat predictable, but what would happen if there was no resolution and the ending was left open to interpretation? The reader would either feel incomplete or completely satisfied. Depending on the how the story was written, the interpreted ending could possibly be better than the ending that the author could have written to begin with. This happened when Frank Stockton wrote The Lady or the Tiger. He created this story with the intent of leaving the resolution out in order to force the reader to create their own ending. Through characterization in any story the reader can get a sense of a character through indirect and direct characterization. Stockton used characterization throughout The Lady or the Tiger and that is how the reader can complete the story on their own and feel complete rather than incomplete without the ending being in the story. Through characterization the ending of this story, which is the princess telling her lover to choose the gate with the tiger in it, is very predictable. There are numerous examples of characterization of the princess throughout the story. When the princess is first mentioned, she is known as the daughter of the semi-barbaric king who is “as blooming as his most florid fancies, and with a soul as fervent and imperious as his own” (Stockton, 1884, p.10). This first glance at the princess foreshadows