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This study aims to analyse "The Wedding" in Samipaşazade Sezai's Little Things within the framework of tuberculosis and feminine psychology. While tuberculosis appears as a motif that aesthetizes death in some literary works, it appears as a symbolic expression of class distinction in some works. This study, on the other hand, treats TB as the psychological expression of the phenomenon of bodily exploitation of the female character and aims to explain the disease in psychological terms. In the narrative, the female character cannot overcome the deep disappointment she has experienced as a result of the suppression of emotions and gradually develops tuberculosis. Using Sigmund Freud's taboo of virginity, Karen Horney's neurosis and feminine psychology and Susan Sontag's metaphors of illness, the study analyses the phases of how love melancholy is transformed into tuberculosis within time. The study suggests that tuberculosis symptoms occur after the loss of virginity, illness is a bodily manifestation of neurotic feelings of guilt, and the character who experiences bleeding tragedies develops a masochistic attitude. The neurotic character accordingly tries to compensate for the loss caused by her passive attitude with excessive self-sacrifice. In conclusion, the study reveals that the character, unable to compete with the strong other woman, has lost her self-esteem due to excessive identification with the object of desire, cannot keep her physical integrity against the paternal figure and psychological integrity in the presence of the maternal figure, and this manifests itself in the form of tuberculosis.