Professionalism demands that one should keep biases and emotions at bay as far as possible, for instance, the way Mr Stevens maintains at Darlington Hall who is not “shaken out by external events, however surprising, alarming, or vexing” (Ishiguro, 1989, p. 43). Mr Stevens, the butler and Masuji Ono, the artist, protagonist-narrators of AFW and ROD, respectively, are professionals whose unreliability as narrators is pointed out and questioned in several studies (Shaffer, 1998, p. 07).