Date of purchase : Tuesday, 31st October, 2017
Date of reading : Sunday, 31st December, 2017
<Main chracters>
Mr Stevens : The Narrator/a butler
Miss Kenton : former housekeeper
Lord Darlington : former employer
Mr Farraday : current employer from America
'The Remains of the Day', by Kazuo Ishiguro tells a story of an English Butler, Mr Stevens, who reminisces about his past as he goes through a few days trp to West Country. He thinks of his former employer-Lord Darlington-, foremr housekeeper-Miss Kenton, and many affairs associated with them.
He keeps emphasizing professionalism as he narrates. I have to admit it seems nice at first as Mr Steven tried to be sincere in his work and to his employer, only to find out how foolish and ignorant he has been.
I was angry and indignant most of the time when he remineces about occasions with Miss Kenton. It sometimes looked that he was sort of psychopath who was not able to empathize with human.
Lord Darlington he had looked up to was not a man who he desperately believeed to be - rather most foolish. A love came and slipped through him while he genuinly believed that suppressing one's feelings is an admiring trait a butler must have acquire.
Indignant as I was, maybe I see some similarities that I have gone through. Vanity, fooling myself, and escaping reality.
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