Samim Kocagöz’s Nâbi’s Park Coffeehouse, which is about the foundation years of the Republic and takes place in a small town, reveals the conflict between the town notables who were the dominant power in that process and the patriotic intellectual youth who represented the poor people and in struggle the defeat of these young people who are caught in bureaucratic-political obstacles. Nabi’s Park Coffeehouse, which is considered to be the first novel of the author that reflects his socialist realist style, has the feature of being a rich novel with the diversity of themes it handles. The novel focuses on the economic situation of the people living in poverty in a town in Western Anatolia, while dealing with the test of the townspeople with nature when the Menderes River overflows. In fact in the novel, the place-human relationship is brought to the fore with the difficult struggle of the village and town people who make their living from agriculture as a result of the overflow of the Menderes River. In the novel, many individual and social problems such as the dominance of those who participated in the War of Independence and the dominant powers who did not participate in this war but pretending to have participated in the war and turning the situation in their favor, and the conflict between them, corruption, moral collapse, bureaucratic decay, health, education and exile are presented to the reader. In the study, the values and functions of the towns in the text were revealed; it was determined how the town as a place was handled in the context of individual and social themes.