Perhaps the main feature that the reader senses of these stories is that their author, the pioneer writer Muhammad Hussein Heikal, was inspired by reality and wanted them to imitate some of the facts and events, and reveal the features of Egyptian society politically, economically, and socially, and the extent of this society's potential for modernization and development. For him, Egyptian life represented the best inspiration for an artist who wanted to draw pictures and social stories that he dealt with creatively with his pen, with criticism and scrutiny.