Ishiguro states in a recent interview that in his novels he depicts individuals who could not rise above the tide of the times but instead go with the flow, zeitgeist, therefore, end up doing contrary to what their profession demands (Matthews, 2014, p. 115). In his novels, he has taken the perspective of ordinary, banal characters who, in their banality, end up embracing a cause that is out of sync with the new world. In this regard, his two novels, AFW and ROD, set in post-Second World War Japan and England, respectively, are about two professionals Mr Stevens and Masuji Ono both of whom find the new trajectory of their life as well as of their country out of sync with what they had experienced before and during the Second World War.