Oguz, Orhan2024-09-182024-09-1820172458-9071https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12483/10385This paper aims to compare two short stories: Ferhunde Kalfa by the Turkish author Halit Ziya Usakligil (1866-1945) and Abji Khanom by the Iranian author Sadeq Hedayat (1903-1951). There are similarities between these two authors in terms of social environment, social class, education and view of literature and both made important contributions to modernization of Turkish and Persian literatures. The stories chosen for analysis in this paper are about a young girl who does not have free will and whose fate is determined by a traditional society. The most remarkable similar point of the stories is that they present woman as victim to and representative of the patriarchal society. Both of the stories are based on critique of traditional values.trinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessHalit Ziya UsakligilSadeq HedayattraditiongenderArticle42145157WOS:000418145000009N/A