![]() The purpose of Stevens’s road trip is to visit Miss Kenton, the former housekeeper of Darlington Hall who left twenty years earlier to get married. ![]() Stevens terms this skill of casual conversation "bantering" several times throughout the novel Stevens proclaims his desire to improve his bantering skill so that he can better please his current employer. ![]() Farraday, but fails to interact well with him socially: Stevens is a circumspect, serious person and is not comfortable joking around in the manner Mr. Though the house was previously owned by the now-deceased Lord Darlington, by 1956, it has come under the ownership of Mr. In July 1956, Stevens decides to take a six- day road trip to the West Country of England-a region to the west of Darlington Hall, the house in which Stevens resides and has worked as a butler for thirty-four years. ![]() The Remains of the Day is told in the first-person narration of an English butler named Stevens. ![]()
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