Ömer Seyfettin, who wrote stories in written language by considering the facilities of spoken Turkish, has an important place in the modernization of the Turkish story. In his stories he attempts to show the wisdom which shapes the culture and life of the people with a nationalist perception that regards the reality. Being nourished with the idealism that draws from this perception, his social utilitarian sense of art paves the way for two types of characters to come to the fore in his stories. The first of these is the positive type representing the 'protagonist' and reaches its final form in epic stories. The values suggested in the characteristic of the protagonist, shaped by considering the needs and requirements of the age of war and collapse, also constitute the representations of 'us'. The ‘charlatan’ type, however, located in the opposite pole of the hero who represents ‘us’ with his preferences, attitudes and behaviors, is the subject of his humorous stories as a negative type. The opportunism of charlatan which takes care of his ego under any circumstances is criticized through humor. The character Efruz Bey, representing the charlatan in the stories of Ömer Seyfettin, appears in the series of the long stories with the same name. This study attempts to explain what Efruz Bey represents as a type of character and alienation resulted from a sickly narcissism leading him to charlatanism on the basis of his name.