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(The Remains of the Day, 208).
In Darlington nothing is great and honorable related to his collection with the Germans-a political gimmick camouflage as a professed act of benevolence that gradually leaves to the deadly abolition of trillions of Jews in World War II. Yet, Stevens decided idealization of his lord’s cosmopolitan identity which is essential for Stevens self image as an honorable professional, who place and commendable role on the global event. Stevens’ stubborn detachments from personal emotions and community have entered in the defective understanding of lord Darlington and seemingly vital roles played by the both in molding the way of history. Stevens is resolved to a conclusion, a sense of pointlessness and utility after his meeting with Miss Kenton, by getting her letter. Ms Kenton during the meeting confesses to him about the failure in her marriage with Mr. …show more content…

Steven had been uncritical that he realized too late and best of him has been lost on delusion of global grandeur. Even though he realizes his inner troubles, he fails to get in a position of critical perception or to grasp from earlier mistakes. The narrative ends with his swear devote him again to automated, emotionless, professionalism and loyalty, as he declares in the end, “I have already devoted much time to developing my bantering skills. I will begin practicing with renewed effort to pleasantly surprise Mr. Farraday” (The Remains of the Day, 258). The fact that Stevens’s new employer Mr. Farraday is an American indicates the existing cosmopolitism, which depicts the changing realities that circles him now. At the end of the narrative Stevens reflect that he s not capable to tune into the present realities of cosmopolitanism. The novel delivers a warning of the after effects of living for a rigidly formulated cosmopolitan

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