Being afraid to get engaged, afraid to express what he feels, afraid to let his emotions loose, Stevens exemplifies a classic case of repressing his emotions (Shaffer, 1998, p. 64). In effect, he has been hiding behind this sort of professional role that leaves him in the end in part a failure at both his private life as well as public one. His repression is such that Miss Kenton once furiously asks him the rhetorical question of “Why, Mr Stevens, why, why, why do you always have to pretend?” (Ishiguro, 1989, p. 110 emphasis original). His professional language curtails him in expressing his emotions either to his dying father or Miss Kenton as his “language is not an adequate emotional framework” but “of those he serves”, his employers (Tung, 1997). In the end, neither Miss Kenton nor Lord Darlington remains in his life. However, what remains of his days is to learn a new skill, bantering, to serve a new master, Mr Faraday.