I will leave the “impressions/feelings” of the story with the other readers. Instead of them, I would like to mention my analysis for the text
First, of the flamework, it can be comparable to the romantic story of medieval era. In the “Don Quixote “by Miguel de Cervantes, a knight who excessively read chivalric romance, strays around searching his ideal lover, Dulcinea, without success, for example. The ending of “The remains of the day” that Stevenson’s journey to bring her to the Darlington Hall to renew relationship with him is finally failed, has as a same structure as the Cervantes’s novel has.
Second, this book is may called a kind of fictional diaries. It is not important whether Stevens actually writes his dairy or not, what is important is his habit; after he arrives a hotel, finishes a dinner and retires into his bedroom, he customarily summarizes today’s events or sometime looks backs to the past. So, according to the first-person narrative, the story advances along with the time ordering; day one, day two, day three day four and so on. But strangely, day five is missing. Stevens meets Miss Kenton in his hotel in the evening of day four. They talk two hours, then, Stevens sends her to the bus station. This course is told at the evening of day six, in the scene on the pier. The memory of day five is completely erased from him. Therefore, what he was doing that day is permanently questioned, except the narrator gives us a modest hint of the Stevens’s emotion only one passage as the Stevens’s monologue; “at that moment, my heart was breaking”. We, readers must fill up the vacancy of the day five, by their own imagination.
Third, it has a special style in the novel, I say, “accumulating”. That means plural episode occurs at one time. I would like to refer the two events in which are the most crucial parties in the Darlington Hall, the one is an unofficial gathering of pro-German gentlemen, the other is a secret meeting of Prime minister, foreign secretary and the German ambassador Herr Ribbentrop in the same house. Stevens is indeed very busy to control his staffs. During the party, in the former case, Stevens senior, his father, died on the second floor, and Stevens is asked to tell the “Wonder of nature” to his godson Reginald Cardinal, from Lord Darlington. In the latter case, in the middle of most secret meeting, Reginald Cardinal, who is now columnist, suddenly visits the house disguising his true purpose and more worsens him Miss Kenton reveals her engagement. In the both cases, Stevens is interrupted to focus on the party. It also makes some discomfort to the readers, who confuse to wonder of which will be more important next.
Fourth, Stevens’s monologue has always inconsistent message. For example, Stevens says, on the one way, “you and I [we] will never be in a position to comprehend the great affairs of today’s world……” then following to the other way, “and our best course will always be to put our trust in an employer we judge to be wise and honorable……”; these two passages eventually contradict each other. how a butler evaluates that his employer is accurately honorable or not if the butler is not having a well-educated discernment. A plain butler can never choose an honorable his lordship or he must wait a once-in-a-lifetime chance to get a great employer, as Stevens says; There were many moving butlers seeking to an honorable employer in vein. Honestly, Stevens himself too was failed in the selection of his employer. His lordship, Lord Darlington was not honorable because he was once influenced by the Nazism and took several mistakes. Stevens blindly followed him with the belief that his lord must have been accomplishing the good deal for his country. He was betrayed his supreme employer. On the superficial context, Stevens is merely a show of justification for his stance, but is it true? The element of “One parson narrator is unreliable” is the basic Literature Theory. We must carefully read until the back sides of the pages.
Fifth, the story itself has a closed system on the upper stage. After short prologue, Stevens sets off the six days mortaring. In the first day, he meets old man sitting on the large stone, and in the last day, meets another old man sitting on the bench of the pier, the both seem to be enjoying the remains of the day of theirs. It suggests Stevens has a right of taking a same pleasure as “the evening’s the best part of the day.” The last part gives us somewhat peace and quiet though his past was very regrettable and remorseful.
This novel is very thoughtful text like, as it were, “Well-Wrought Urn”.
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