As a postwar British individual, the protagonist of the novel tries to practice suppression over his emotions at the personal level as well as the professional level to construct a new identity. The novel depicts the role that memories can play in reconstructing the past events so that the present can be meaningful in some way from a postmodern standpoint. Stevens struggles to come to term with his present through telling stories and anecdotes of his past life. The purpose of this study is to trace the postmodern aspects in The Remains of The Day through the life and character of Stevens and his relationships with the people that he has lived with. Ishiguro is concerned with reworking of the past from a late twentieth century perspective. They are narratives centering on the working of consciousness and the unconsciousness of the human mind. They are stories dealing with human relationship. Ishiguro’s novels are written in an expanded humanistic tradition. Postmodernism looks upon man as a social being that should learn how to adapt himself to whatever situation by whatever means available. Many people felt they were not able to come to terms with such ongoing changes and had to find a way to coexist with the status-quo. The postwar world period was riddled with rapid changes at the different levels.
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