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This study mainly focuses on extracting the feature of discourse and the literary meaning that Park Wan-Seo's gerontological novels have, making the Old aged novel as a prime object that is in her anthology <Jumunnal's saphwa>. First of all, this text analyzes <Jumunnal's saphwa 1-5>sequence and several novels in her anthology <Jumunnal's saphwa>. Thus, I set an object on discovering the problem this novel has, and the future value through her gerontological novel, considering the deficiency of interest and research of gerontological novel. Her novels that old women are protagonists mostly use confession form or the first person. Besides, though it develops in a form of reminding of aged narration, we can easily notice of the author's 'valuable desire' through an elective disposing of the things that are not forgettable in the stories. Because of that, her novels function a 'Public discourse' though they are garrulous. An 'episode' form is a new discourse form that the author applied to widen the chemistry with readers. Next, her novels embody the dreams in an ideal scene that are impossible to be realized in reality, by going and returning to the illusion and the realities of life. This is kind of method revealing the severe recognition that our real world is a place of anti-life. The problem of expanding the range of analysis and objects of her gerontological novel will be the next problem to be solved.

gerontological novel. the feature of discourse, episode, <Jumunnal's saphwa>, Park Wan-Seo.