"Extreme emotional control and the damage it can afflict".

... "Extreme emotional control and the damage it can afflict" Stevens kept his emotions under a tight restraint for all his life, he had donned the mask of an imperturbable butler, denying and unexpressing his own beliefs, substituting them for those of his employers, such as Lord Darlington. In the novel Stevens is always keeping to himself, never seeking advise or asking for moral support from anyone, as if he doesn't need it. Even as a narrator he never really mentions any worried he has involving his personal life, until the end of the book. However he is always telling the reader about some, almost irrelevant, problems he faces profession-wise, such as flaws he has been making in his work, like giving Mr. Farraday a slightly dirty fork, Stevens recalls the moment as one in which he felt "genuine embarrassment". Stevens overreaction to such a petty incident only shows us the

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