Guests of the N ation w ritten by the Irish w riter Frank O ’C onnor is the most magnificent short story,in w hich a tragedy about the killing betw een friends is depicted.In this story,many different pairs of binary opposition are used to present the theme and the characters vividly,w hich makes the plot more attractive.T his study attempts to analyze the phenomena of the binary opposition in the story based on the theory of deconstruction to deconstruct the individuals’feelings of the absurdity and void of the meaningless w orld. Guests of the Ntion w ritten by the Irish w riter Frank O ’C onnor is the most magnificent short story, in w hich a tragedy about the killing betw een friends is characterized. In this story, many different pairs of binary opposition are used to present the theme and the characters vividly, w hich makes the plot more attractive. his study attempts to analyze the phenomena of the binary opposition in the story based on the theory of deconstruction to deconstruct the individuals’feelings of the absurdity and void of the meaningless w orld.