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An unreliable narrators are usually invented characters who are part of the stories they tell
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They are used to reveal and interesting gap between appeareance and reality, to show how human beings distort or conceal the latter.
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In 'The Remains of the Day', Steven's narrative is a sort of confession, marred by self-justification and special pleading.
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Butlerspeak has no literary merit. No wit, sensuousness or originality. It is only used in the novel to add to growing perception of it's inadequacies.
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Stevens is incapable of recognising and responding to the love that Miss Kneton was ready to offer him.
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The episode where Steven's should go and console Miss Kenton, just after she has received news of her aunt's death, it turns out later in the novel that he has attached this memory to the wrong episode. Unrealible, changes the meaning of the memory.
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Comparing Kazuo Ishiguro with Nabokov. In the latter's 'Pale Fire' he makes his character comic and eloquent.
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Steven's lack of eloquence is made interesting because of his unreliability. If he were reliable then it would be boring.
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