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The purpose of this essay is to identify some of the key narrative differences between Hitchcock's 'Vertigo' and Tarantino's 'Pulp Fiction'. "Narrative is one of the ways in which knowledge is organised. I have always thought it was the most important way to transmit and receive knowledge. I am less certain of that now ¡V but the craving for narrative has never lessened..." - Toni Morrison. (Bordwell and Thompson, 2001.) The narrative form in both of these films are very important, they are also completely different. The narrative form in Vertigo is linear. The scenes run in chronological order, whereas Pulp Fiction is non-linear. The scenes play out like three different stories, but they are all linked and are disordered. Vertigo (1958), which was based on the book "D'entre Les Morts" by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, is a complex story about a San Francisco detective and his psychological troubles with fear of heights and with a woman. It has a Classical Hollywood narrative structure ¡V set-up ¡V confrontation ¡V resolution. The narrative centres on James Stewart's character John 'Scottie' Ferguson, who has certain traits ¡V the main one being his fear of heights, which is used against him to make him the wit