Interface of Community and Environment in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Novel The Remains of the Day- Rumana Chowdhury

Interface of Community and Environment in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Novel The Remains of the Day Rumana Chowdhury Associate Professor Department of English Language and Literature Premier University, Chattogram Email: chy.rmn@gmail.com Abstract: The Remains of the Day, the Booker Prize-winning book written by Kazuo Ishiguro, is regarded as one of the most highly post-war British novels. Ishiguro has chosen the post-Second World War background for this novel, where domestic service played a major role in Britain and continued to employ a large number of domestic servants until the Second World War. Here the author describes a personal life of the protagonist named Stevens. He is a butler in profession, and works at present under his master, Mr. Farraday who is a rich man from upper economic stratum. Through Stevens as well as some characters connected with him, the novelist portrays different communities with the surrounding atmosphere of that existing contemporary society. In that society, the high-class people reside at the center, and the rest of the society, who are from the middle and low class, have to fight hard continuously to get near to the center without crossing the boundary. This article attempts to show how different characters of both the upper class and the lower-class interface with each other professionally as well as personally through their community and environment in the novel The Remains of the Day. Keywords: Environment, Community, Interface, High-Class, Butler, Poor-Class