Pulp Fiction Narrative Analysis

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Pulp Fiction uses the “episodic narrative” form which makes the story more believable to the viewers. Due to its narrative being non-linear as it goes back and forth in time, it is implied that characters carry on with their lives in between scenes in the film. The narrative has a plausible effect on Pulp Fiction as a whole. This effect is best illustrated in the closing scene in which a restaurant being robbed by a couple, which happens to be the opening scene as well which depicts that the story has gone full circle. This scene is a part of the “fabula” (story) of the film which in chronological order should take place somewhere in the middle, but the “syuzhet” (narrative) used in the film plays it right at the beginning.
Although the ordering

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