Abstract
This study attempts a narratological analysis of the elements of voice and mood of two novels by Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day (1989). The theoretical reference of the study will be based on the ideas of narratology with special reference to Gerard Genette Narrative Theory. Narratology is one of the main branches of structuralism. The goal of this field is to understand, analyze, and evaluate narratives. The analysis is then further going into the examination of the function of the narrator in the novels. At the end, findings and recommendations for further research are provided.Analyzing the data shows that the narrator in the novel is first Person narrator. The narrator is home-diegetic.The novel is narrated from internal focalization - homogeneous representation.This study tackles Genette's two elements of voice and mood in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day. It does not discuss the other elements of Genette's narrative theory. So more research should be done on the elements of order, frequency, and duration of Gerard Genette's narrative theory.
Key words: narratology, Gerard Genette, voice, mood, Kazuo Ishiguro, narrator, The Remains of the Day.