As i neared the end of this novel, my feeling of dreariness over the whole situation and what Ishiguro was heading towards in the conclusion became greater. I think this is because via Kathy's close narration which is very personal and almost diary-like at times, the reader becomes very close to her and Tommy but more significantly to them and the idea of them gaining a deferral and finally being together instead of remaining as an odd item casualy talking and having sex in an 'L' shaped room.
Because of the reader becoming almost part of what is happening via Kathy's narration to them like in a diary, the reader expects the same outcome as Kathy and Tommy. I believe Ishiguro purposely exploits this effect of the novel on the reader by writing the conlusion as it is.It does make for far more personal reading than if everything had been positive as there is the relentless sense of hope which the reader shares with Kathy and Tommy which drives the reader to the end. Also, the conlusion matches the entire novel in tone as in the back of Tommy and Kathy's mind as well as the readers, we know that they will both complete without any sort of deferral. it is a typical convention in novels of this sort for the end to meet the readers secret expectations which they prefer to ignore but which squeezes the tears out of girls and shrugs out of (most) boys.
Another part of the end which stood out to me (mainly because its mishaped form in the plot) is where the hopeful couple got to see miss lucy and emily.A lot of the content in this section was irrelevent and just bored me, and like hannah said, it seems to be put in by ishiguro just to tie up lose ends. There is also the reference to miss emily and her 'mechanical sounds' which thoroughly confused me.i think by this point, dreariness had taken over even ishiguro and he abruptly ended the novel shortly after the revellation of the myth of deferral!
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