Unreliable narration in The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro and Love and Death in Long Island by Gilbert Adair. Vanderbilt.

4/15/03 Different Strokes for Different Folks People make friends and acquaintances with similar backgrounds and similar viewpoints. When a story is told, the audience takes it for granted that the storyteller values the same things as they do. If the person has different beliefs and values, does that make the story less valid? The narrators in The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro and Love and Death in Long Island by Gilbert Adair are both …

…Island by Gilbert Adair and Stevens from The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro have one thing in common, obsessions that overshadow their lives and judgment. Stevens is so concerned with his work that he leaves no room for another life on the side. Giles develops an obsession for an American heartthrob and drops everything to pursue it. Because the two narrators have a misguided view on life, the accounts they give are unreliable.