Blind,but Good, Extreme Pride

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     Pg. 110  "let me make clear that when i say the conference of 1923, and that night in particular, constituted a turning point in my professional development, i am speaking in very much of my own humble standards.  Even so, as you consider the pressures contingent on me that night, you may not think i delude myself unduly if i go so far as to suggest that i did perhaps display, in the face of everything,  at least to some degree a  'dignity' worth of someone like Mr Marshall - or come to that, my father.  Indeed, why should I deny it?  for all its sad associations, whenever i recall that evening today, i find i do with a large sense of triumph.

     In this specific passage, like all of the other parts of the book, is in the first person of STEVENS! and one can assume that he is expressing his sincere emotions no matter how shallow or closed minded the reader may perceive them to be.  the narration also takes place in the future because of the way he described what happened that night and "what happened that night" and when he said he recalls it today.  It can be assumed that because Stevens lives such a simple life as a butler that the reader was anticipating some kind of regret due to the fact that he was writing it in the future as his current fully experienced self.  but the fact that twards the ebd of the passage he questions himself about denying the dignity wich could imply that he could have denyed somthing in the past or is denying somthing and has the ability to conceal and dysreguard his emotions he deems non dignifiable.