Examine pages 100 to 115 Kazuo Ishiguro's 'The Remains of the Day' in detail. Show by a close reading of key scenes within this, how the novelists language and form both reveals and conceals, central issues of character emotion, politics and memory. .
Pages 100 to 115 of "The Remains of the Day" are very ideal pages in which to highlight the Ishiguro technique of mixing the historical, political, public and the private. The mixture between public and private is central to the form of the novel. In these 15 pages the mix is especially highlighted with a dinner with high class and internationally powered figures of the time where many political issues concerning the treaty of Versailles are being discussed. This setting then contrasts with the actions of the staff arranging and serving these people and the death of Mr Stevens Senior.
The Private aspects of this scene focus on the interaction between the head butler Mr Stevens and his dying father. This interaction focuses on Stevens's lack of being able to handle the death of his father on a personal level. It is at these points where Stevens's language conceals the central issues of the novel while still giving room for readers to discover them through what is not said.
Stevens's language tries to distance him from his fathers "condition" by referring to him in the third person saying, "I hope father is feeling better now". Stevens's use of language like this shows how immersed in his work and its traditions he is by not being able to switch between formal and informal when talking to his own father who is at deaths door. Further phrases show the chilly distance between them, for example Stevens tries to push his father away and puts of their meeting till morning saying "I"m afraid we"re extremely busy now, but we can talk again in the morning.".
An element of denial is revealed by Stevens in Ishiguro's writing. This denial is shown when he says "I"m glad father is feeling so much better".
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