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Norwegian Wood is a fiction which has been predominantly studied as a love tale of mixed feelings, entangled between Toru, Naoko and Midori. It has a signature narrative technique of Murakami where the story thrives between past and present creating the peculiar Murakami-esque effect. In the present research paper, the researchers are trying to revisit the story of Toru in the light of fate acting as the ultimate authority. One can consider it as deus ex machina. Deus ex machina or God in the form of machine is a classical terminology which has been used by writers for ages. Here, Murakami has used it as a 'red string of fate' in order to reach the climax. Fate has a unique mechanism for each individual. It may not be the same as it is equal to that of his deeds. God has plans for every individual and fate is the string through which He implements his plans. Fate is the greatest leveller that adjudicates the deeds of a man and reciprocates the same treatment by different means which the researchers name it as deus ex machina.