Abstract
As the newly published book of Celeste Ng, a Chinese-American female writer, Little Fires Everywhere tells a story set in the 1990s which begins with a bizarre fire of a house in Shaker Heights, Ohio,and analepsis is deftly applied by Celeste Ng to explain the truth behind the fire. As the title hits, fire acts as a significant image in this novel which appears several times in the text.Employing Genette’s concepts of analepsis, Hu Yamin's definition of the function of analepsis and some different interpretations of the image fire in Western civilization,this paper tends to analyzes how the author conveys the themes of the search for self, destruction and rebirth, and the relationship between mother and daughter through the arrangement of the analepsis time structure.
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