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The novel CloudStreet by Tim Winton presents a series of events that can be read as a story. There are important themes evident in the novel that are contributed with the help of the technique of narrative structure. In order to accept the views presented in this novel, we look at circular narrative and the chapters and sub-chapters within. Winton has concentrated some of his views to be the importance of family, the importance of place, understanding each other, nature and spiritual world and Aboriginality. The circular narrative structure of Cloudstreet shows that novel begins at the present, moves onto the past and comes back to present. This is evident in the prologue and the last sub-chapter called “Sun, Moon, Stars”. In the prologue we are given an image of a happy family picnic which ends up with someone drowning in the river. While reading the prologue the people described remained un-named as to give a sense of mystery. But the quote at the end of the prologue “from the broad vaults and spaces you can see it all again because it never ceases to be” (pg 3) gives us a small clue as to how the story if turned back to the past. We know from the novel that the person who drowned was Fish Lamb and from his eyes in t