Abstract
The type occupies an important place among the different elements that create literary works. In particular, the use of character and type concepts when describing people in a literary work, two different terms to indicate the same element, sometimes makes it difficult for researchers to choose. The type embodies the common characteristics of a particular community. The type is the tool used to convey the event or situation in the work. The character, who is a special person fictionalized by the author, not the tool in the work is the purpose. The event is shaped around the character; the character is in the center. Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Teffi, one of the most important figures of Russian immigrant literature, started her literary life with poetry, but continued with the story. Known as Russia’s first female humor writer, Teffi also adds tragedy, melancholy and pain to the comic elements in her works. The types, she creates, have common characteristics of the people. As a woman, she gives rise to the negative type of mother in her stories and creates a single type by using the two opposite characteristics of motherhood in her different works. This article attempts to define “type” as a literary element and to examine and exemplify the mother type in Nadezhda Teffi’s stories. Type analysis, as a research method, was used for the purpose of the study.