Being one of the most important story and novel writers of the Republican period Turkish literature; Bilge Karasu generally focuses on the problems of individuals and embraces social life and the values that dominate social life from an individual’s perspective in his works. In his story The Man Walking through a Passage which is included in his work Garden of Emigrated Cats, he stresses the individual’s alienation from the nature and himself in a living order dominated by mechanization and advanced technology. The writer fictionalizes the plot as an underground experience. On the other hand, Richard Wright who is another writer whose work is analyzed in this article is one of the important representatives of the 20th century American literature. In his works, he mainly focuses on the problems of African Americans. His fiction story The Man Who Lived Underground which was translated into our language as Yeraltında Yaşayan Adam embraces the life of a man who lived underground in the second quarter of the 20th century. In this study, the works The Man Walking through a Passage and The Man Who Lived Underground focusing on the extraordinary adventures of heroes underground are analyzed comparatively.