Abstract: This paper focuses on discontinuity of life in Ahmad Ali‟s Twilight in Delhi (1940). The aim of this study is to highlight the causes of discontinuity of life while the objective of the study is to explore that how characters‟ lives discontinued. For this aim, Fairclough‟s critical discourse analysis model is used. This paper concludes that critical discourse analysis at sentence level appears effective in analyzing the deep meaning of discontinuity of characters' life. It is also concluded that critical discourse analysis techniques helpes in finding that the writer has juxtaposed the national, social, domestic and personal discontinued life of characters but with gradual decline.