Significance of Bengal Tiger

A Bengal Tiger factors into the story “The Last Hour of the Bengal Tiger”. It is among those things owned by the spinster sisters who brought the Museum of Torture into being. The Bengal Tiger is dying in the short story, and is comforted by the uncle from “The Man Who Sold Braces” in its final moments. This deeply moves the Narrator of “The Last Hour of the Bengal Tiger”, for it seems to her as if both man and tiger have become one. This is the opposite of her own marriage, for her husband is having an affair, meaning the one they have become in marriage is now two.