Tiger Lily (Peter Pan) Tiger Lily (Peter Pan) Tiger Lily is a fictional character in J. M. Barrie's play "Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up", his novel based on it, and the various adaptations of them. She is the princess of the ""Piccaninny"-tribe" (Native Americans) living on the island of Neverland. She is apparently old enough to be married, but she refuses any suitors because she desires Peter Pan overall. She is jealous of Wendy and Tinker Bell. Tiger Lily is nearly killed by Captain Hook when she is seen boarding the "Jolly Roger" with a knife in her mouth, but
Peter Pan exhibits many aspects of the stages of cognitive development seen in children and can be regarded as Barrie's memory of himself as a child, being both charmingly childlike and childishly solipsistic. Peter Pan ran away from his parents when he was a baby as told in "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens" and "Peter and Wendy". Finding the window closed and seeing a new baby in the house when he returned some time later, he believed his parents no longer wanted him and never came back. This younger sibling is referred to in the chapter "Lock-Out Time" in "Peter Pan in