In Free Fall,William Golding,by rearranging narrative time in the form of the first person narrator’s recollection of his past,reveals the causal link between events.This novel,in turn,becomes a jour-ney of discovery, leading to an understanding of the connection between loss of faith in the contemporary world and “free fall”. Through an exploration of the narrator’s spiritual malady that mirrors the spiritual di-lemma of the modern man,the novel provides a unique comment on the spiritual status quo of the twentieth century British society and a summary of the spiritual history of the West.