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The Remains of the Day (Techniques (Unreliable Narration (Effect (Ironic…

- - - - Laughed at vs Stevens Senior holding his ground, a formidable figure
  - - - "well contented man" until "the day his lordship's work is complete"
- - - - Jumping out of the bush and startling Reginald Cardinal (pg 93)
      - Skirting round the topic of the "facts of life" (pg 88)
  - - - pg 98: eavesdropping on M Dupont and Mr Lewis
        
        "There is no subterfuge implied" then ""and continue to listen instead"
      - The need to reason why he reads romance
        
        rhetoric questions
        
        Ironic, he cannot "express his feelings for" Ms Kenton
    - - Ironic distance
        
        Discrepancy though it is a travelogue
      - Comedy #
      - Pity/Sympathy
      - Tragedy
  - - - Batman
      - Wakefields
      - Inability to figure out why he is embarassed,continue to reinforce that LD was a "gentleman of great moral stature", "nothing but proud"
      - Denounces culpability, mistakes of LD are his own
    - - Refuge from the "rather trying" events
    - - "pondering just why it was our relationship underwent such a change"
      - "I have occasionally wondered to myself how things would have turned out in the long run" "had I relented on those several occasions that Ms Kenton suggested we reinstitute them"
        
        "benefit of hindsight" "key turning point" #
      - "When one looks back to such instances today"
        
        "Render whole dreams forever irredeemable"
      - To no avail #
  - - - Lack of clarity
  - - - Grip
        
        on apparatus of vocation
    - - Decline
    - - Professionalism
      - Gentility
- - - - "your father passed away 4 minutes ago" "I see"
    - - Unease, discomfort
- - - - Batman: 'You mean you actually used to work for that LD?" "Oh no"
    - - Carolyn Barnet wielding an "unusual influence over LD" "entirely untypical incidents took place in Darlington Hall"
        
        "we cannnot have Jews on the staff here at Darlington Hall"
        
        "my every instinct opposed of their dismissal"
    - - "Reginald Cardinal attempted to galvanise Stevens into action "Shouldn'y you be concerned? the least bit curious?"
        
        "are you content, to watch his lordship go over the precipice just like that?"
        " I don't fully understand"
  - - - A blatant rejection, not considering Ms Kenton's repeated explanations of her fatigue, pushing her away/distancing himself deliberately
        
        "Mr Stevens, please, I believe these meetings are very useful
        #
    - - "Indeed Ms Kenton, that is very interesting"
        
        tries to incite some sort of response, Stevens as an entertainment
        
        "i was very foolish earlier on"
        
        "In fact, I cannot recall"
- - - - Association with a truly distinguished household is a prerequisite for greatness of the butler
      - Silver
        
        "Actual words, not simply my fantasy"
        
        "small but significant contribution"
        
        "fulcrum of great affairs" "comprise a contribution to the course of history"
    - - "professional armory" "Studying this programme" "formulate three witticisms" a day "same exercise"
    - - "foibles and sentiments" #
      - butler's pantry like a "crucial office, heart of the house" like a "general's headquaters"
      - "inhibit his role, utterly and fully"
        
        "one situation, and one situation only" "that is when he is entirely alone"
        
        Seek to "re-establish our professional relationship" #
      - "expressed mirthful smiles"
        
        "laughing covertly"
        
        more suppressed laughter"
        
        Open, hearty laughter
        
        "any decent professional should expect to take such events in his stride"
- - - - Care
        
        "Foolish girl, what do you think you are doing"
        
        First show of emotion, some sort of attachment/concern "let him sleep, its exhuastion that made him ill"
      - Entirely disconnected conversation
        
        Stevens Senior trying to reach out to Stevens
  - - - "I might best do or say to ease her burden a little"
        
        Ironic, "i believe you have been remiss in these respects" --> attempts to reassure, comfort Ms Kenton by talking to her, but can only talk about work related
        #
- - - - "Hazard[rous]" "gravely risk" "dangers"
  - - - "professional in nature"
        
        "wishful thinking of the professional kind" "Difficult to point to any passage"
        
        "I may as well say here that having reread her letter again tonight, I am inclined to believe I may well have read more into certain of her lines than perhaps was wise"
        
        "What is the purpose of endless speculating?"