First-Person Fiction

This narrator is telling us what happened to him in his lifetime as a butler. He seems to have many regrets in life as he follows a new employer that has failed a lot in his career. He also seems to regret letting Miss Kenton the housekeeper leave without telling her he liked her, she married another man.  The butler does change throughout the story because he feels he is too uptight and don’t not find his new employers’ humor funny or his social conversations useful. So he strives to better himself on being less uptight and to try and enjoy/please his new employer as that’s all he has to grasp too. I feel like this is a reflection of all the regrets he had in life. The butler is found to have a covered heart, he doesn’t express much emotion and this is one reason why he fails at getting Miss Kenton and being able to converse with his new employer.