The article is devoted to the archetypic image of the “tree” in modern fiction. It gives a review of different approaches to the highly complicated problem of interrelation between folklore and literature. The definition of an archetype is considered and the role of archetypes in a fictional text is defined. The analysis of the extracts from fiction reveals close connection of symbolic meaning of the “tree” with its archetype and allows to see the depth of the content in fiction. The importance of the research comes out of insufficiency of researches devoted to archetypic images and symbols in modern literature.