In taking into consideration the diversity of motives within the construction of literary figures that feature in the short stories of Thurayya Al-Baqsami, together with the composite characteristic traits, the grouping of religious, social or even metaphysical motivations, the functioning of the main figures can be divided into four types. The first is the hero of traditional Kuwaiti society based partly on the old system of values and defined by a traditional way of life. The second is the hero of the modern society where the norms and conditions of life are to a greater degree connected to European ones, and are linked to the whole complexity of problems and dilemmas characteristic for the post-modernist era. The third is the hero of the period of the Iraqi-Kuwaiti conflict who is subordinated chronologically to the temporal-spatial events of the aggression, occupation and war of liberation, as well as the final fourth hero who is at the same time as if an element of one of the three remaining, yet who based both on the former style of life and the modern represents autobiographical features of the life of Thurayya herself and her family.

The main figures in Thurayya Al-Baqsami's short stories remain in so to say chronological accord with the development of her writing consciousness. Feeling her calling as a writer she avidly listened to her family's stories, diligently noting them down and elaborating with her own impressions. From these transfers there derive numerous autobiographical details which are richly scattered in the short stories.