Time in " Shemiran Bus" from Gérard Genette viewpoint

“Shemiran Bus” is the first collected story of “scattered memories” written by Goli Taraghi. She has used narrative technique efficiently by employing memory and story narrative type. Time, which narrative is heavily contingent on, plays an important role in shaping the structure of a narrative. Time in narratology is investigated mainly in three parts: order, continuity and frequency. Gérard Genette, a pioneer researcher, is one of the greatest theorists of “time and narrative”. The current study employed descriptive-analytical method to examine time from narratology perspective of Gérard Genette and its role in shaping the narrative in the short story of Shemiran Bus. The results showed that Taraghi has employed retrospective internal anachronism and external anachronism to destruct the time linear trend. The retrospective internal anachronism due to association is the common application of time in this story. Also, the retrospective external anachronism has been used in two cases accompanied by arguing act of character and nostalgia of the memories. In the scope of continuity, the elements of descriptive pause, deletion, summarization and display have been used according to the importance of the subject matters. At the beginning of the story, due to attention of the writer to descriptive pause, characterization and explanation with more detail, the narration momentum is negative. The dominant frequency in this story is singular, and repetitive frequency has been used for meaningful emphasis on the plot