İffet (1896) and Son Arzu (1918) are two novels of Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar, whose ends with

tragedy. The novels end with the death of two young girls, İffet and Nuruyezdan, whose main

characters are educated and virtuous according to their times. Both works are based on real life

stories. Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar explains in the preface of the work that he is one of the heroes of

the event in his novel İffet. The story of the Son Arzu was conveyed to him by Nuruyezdan's wife. It

is understood that the author wanted to reveal the social structure of the era with these novels. The

ethics of the society emerges as another questioned concept. It is seen that romance and realism are

examined in the novel of İffet. In the case of the Son Arzu, the way of thinking and the stagnation of

the old age is criticized. Women's rights and women-men relations are other criticisms. The main

theme, which is the focus of all these discussions, is shaped by the opposition between imagination

and truth. While there are very few who can be set as good examples in both novels, two virtuous

women have become immoral in the eyes of society. Despite their weaknesses in realism, Hüseyin

Rahmi Gürpınar's novels Son Arzu and İffet attract attention with the symbolic contrasts they

establish between the interior of the house and the street. According to this, the interior of the

house is the representation of “dream” with its disconnection from real life, and the street is the

representation of “truth”. The more virtuous the language seen in the dialogues and letters at home,

the more immoral the language of the street. Home; the worn or superficial it is in expressing the

old order, the more real is the life flowing on the street. No matter how sublime the love the heroes

set up in their homes, the emotion encountered outside is only about sexuality. The great success of

the author is that he skillfully transferred this contrast he created around the theme of dreams and

reality to his works.