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A farewell address by Oh Jeong-Hee is about the main character, Jung Ok’s going to the cemetery with her mother on “the Buddhist All Souls Day”. In this simple story line, this novel has a complicated time structure inside. This novel as it goes by changes into a puzzle, and after all that it makes readers think about what was the farewell address. This writing reveals that how anachrony aspect could’ve connected to symbol which a farewell address, through analysis of its time structure. The novel made up of by 26 paragraphs-15 of present paragraphs, 8 of flashback paragraphs, 3 of imaginative paragraphs. The present paragraphs go with Jeong-Ok, and flashback paragraphs go with husband’s story looked by Jeong-Ok’s view of point, imaginative paragraphs consist of the husband that build up with Jeong-Ok’s imagination. The feature of the anachrony of the novel is imagination’s interference in between present and flashback. And the imagination takes a role that erases the boundary of present and flashback. As a result, readers feel confuse in their linear idea of time, and start to ask the meaning of time. In A farewell address, it is not the cause and effect trigger that connects past and present, but it is a simultaneity. The husband who would along with Jeong-Ok, in the Cemetery Park, and outside of the house, he attained the simultaneity as he stood close to both life and death. Construct such simultaneity is through the symbol which is a farewell address. The farewell address is not the words that give to the people who nearer death. The farewell address is the farewell address to the linear idea of time. A farewell address let readers put all the pieces of husband-puzzle together, and also let them ask the meaning of life again by deconstruction of boundary of life and death.