The research dealt with a fictional literary model as part of the orientalists' discourse and simplified a number of theoretical frameworks that led to linking the novel (Alexandria Quartet) by the English writer Lawrence Darrell with the orientalist discourse. These frameworks were theoretical introductions in which the research stood on the concept of pattern, and the city being a pattern, and studied the Orientalism within a number of concepts; such as representation, identity, the other, the self and domination, and the geography of the East culturally, as a single city according to the vision of the colonizer.
The research used indicative models from the orientalists' discourse and their travels in the east which showed the degree of compatibility with fictional texts in terms of cultural orientation.The research followed the concepts of cultural theory in its methodology; it dealt with the cultural pattern and studies of the criticism of Orientalism, or post-colonial, and derived from this theory what helped to reveal the hidden system of the Alexandrian personality and the city of Alexandria in Darrell's Quartet.
The research concluded that the East is one block, or a city and all that has been said about Alexandria applies to the East as a whole. It also concluded that Orientalists got collided with the reality of the East because of the cultural gap between what they read about the East textually and what they lived realistically. This gap led to issuing unfair judgments about the East. Finally, the research found that the image of Alexandria in the fictional literary work coincided with the image of the East in the orientalists' discourses, which is an image characterized by transcendence and supremacy.