Bozorg Alavi is one of the writers who gave a place in the stories of reality in a new social stage of contemporary Iranian history. In his stories, he tackles the various social problems of critical reality, endeavoring to obtain and quantify concrete reality, leaving aside immature and slogans of symbolism. Being aware of the fact that the share of society cannot be ignored in the process of creation of a work of art, the author, based on a sociology of literature, which is a sub-discipline of literature, presents works based on the intersection points of literature and society.

In this study, Ölüm Kurtarıcı Olursa (Gile-merd) of Bozorg Alavi has been tried to be examined within the framework of the sociology of literature. In this process, it has been tried to explain to how he paid attention to the realities in the social structure of the author and how he reflected his observations to his stories in his work. In the stories in the work, it has been tried to find the points about social development and realities such as the transition from traditional to modernity and to relate them to the social structure of the period in which the works were written, and the stories have been evaluated under main headings and sub-headings according to their themes.