Human is a being who inholds the levels of past, present and future. For this season, he lives what he took from the past and carries his experiences to the future. This transfer principally is an attempt to hold to the world. This attempt is within the boundaries of identity definition. While wishing to prove his identity, human wants to raise a consciousness through carrying his experiences to next generations. Women, who provide continuance of the generation, are the contractors of this task. Women who integrate their individual identity with the social one play an active role to construct the future. Women, who within the family attempt to make gain national consciousness through the first touches, are both positively and negatively the pioneers of new generation. In Ömer Seyfettin’s stories, national consciousness and identity construction are the primary themes. Women, who take turn to the future of society, are both embraced positively and negatively in the stories Primo the Turkish Child, Fon Sadriştayn’s Son, Fon Sadriştayn’s Wife, The Bastard, Harem and Olive, The Bread. These stories touch upon the theme of woman as mother and her affect to the child in the process of identity construction.

Anahtar Kelimeler
Value transfer, identity, mother, Ömer Seyfettin, short story.