Wait a minute!!

Passage
But now that I think further about it, I am not sure hat Miss Kenton spoke quite so boldly that day. We did, of course, over the years of working closely together come to have some very frank exchanges, but the afternoon I am recalling was still early in our relationship and I cannot see even Miss Kenton having been so forward. I am not sure she could actually have gone so fat as to say things like: 'these errors may be trivial in themselves, but you must yourself realize their larger significance'. In fact, now that I come to think of it, I have a feeling it may have been Lord Darlington himself (60).

Commentary
This paragraph is in the midst of having Miss Kenton tell Stevens that his father, Stevens Senior, is not fit to be waiting tables. His hands constantly tremble and is a walking bomb for an accident waiting to happen. He could easily drop a tray onto the laps of a gentlemen or lady. Furthermore, his nose constantly drips which could easily land on the food for Lord Darlington's guests and make a splendid meal very unappealing.

Another aspect that this paragraph presents to the novel is the truthfulness of Ishiguro, the author. The Remains of the Day is presented in the words of Stevens, an aging British butler that conveys the message of the novel as a storyteller, which can lead to lies or altered truths being presented to the reader. Stevens begins this section of the book telling us how Miss Kenton was criticizing how his father was unfit to wait tables, but then Stevens starts thinking and realizes that it was actually Lord Darlington that had suggested that Stevens' father refrain from waiting tables which completely defines the definition of storytelling, where the storyteller makes mistakes, lies, or goes back and changes details of the story.