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Kazuo Ishiguro is acclaimed as one of the most influential writers of post-world war literature. His novel The Remains of the Day is the most fascinating fiction of English literature. Ishiguro emphasizes repeatedly Stevens’ suppression of emotion and sense of absence in the narrative. There is a tangible sense of absence felt when reading the novel. Kazuo Ishiguro has filled this novel with palpable emptiness and he does this through the narrative and its disclosure of Stevens’ character. The feeling of absence that is perceptible in the narrative, The Remains of the Day is memorably linked to the subject of forgetting. The mode of operation of Stevens as a butler of the highest rank in the home of Darlington Hall, is to be present and yet unseen. Ishiguro has shown his own understanding through Stevens, a butler in Darlington Hall. There are two different levels through the sense of absence is apparent, one is in the terrain that Stevens travels through that is public, and other in his own life that is private.