Remains Of The Day Essay

In The Remains of the Day, the concerns of Stevens are linked to the political and social climate that is surrounding him. Stevens shared many personal values with a colonialist ideology, like his relationship with Lord Darlington and the hierarchies that structure it. The most obvious technique of the novel is the unreliable narrator because Stevens’s personal experiences differ from the actually stories. Ishiguro uses an interest in ordinary, private, and marginal lives in order to fill the spaces between battles, treaties, etc. Stevens’s narrative also connects personal to political by offering an alternative to public history records that uses voices that may not be right or may not matter. Ishiguro’s fiction uses an individual’s narrative

After a flashback to a meeting at Darlington Hall, Stevens remembers one of Lord Darlington’s colleagues had embarrassed him. His colleague had asked about the debt situation and low level of trade and laughed when Stevens would not be apart of the discussion, but Stevens felt no embarrassment because he knew he trusted his master and to be part of discussion in that aspect is beyond a butler’s understanding. This incident reflects a present world order where Stevens recalls an event like the trade deficit with America, but Britain’s response would reflect the changing power structure in the postwar period. By the end of the 1950’s, a cultural and political easing period between Britain and the US began and by the end of Remains, Stevens rethinks his antipathy towards Americans. This begins an ideological shift for Stevens after driving with Mr. Farraday’s Ford, his reunion with Miss Kenton, and wanting to let ghosts of the past go. Even though Stevens was disappointed about Miss Kenton staying with her husband, he began to open up more to the reader and decided to keep an open mind with Farraday in the