Memory, an indispensable part of human lives, can generate the illusion of a momentary revisit to a lost past thereby bringing the past closer to the present in human consciousness which in turn build consequential link between the events of the past and that of the present. The remembrance of memories by a person has the potentiality not only to work as a mirror of the past events but reflects substantially the present predicament of the person who is engaged in the process of recollection. Different literary works by Kazuo Ishiguro seem to contribute significantly to the understanding of the mechanism of recollected memory of a person in the formation of a concrete and established identity. In this paper, an attempt has been made to show how by reflecting the past, memory—though inherently fragile—acts as a channel towards the formulation of identity of an individual in the present. The two significant novels by Ishiguro, namely A Pale View of Hills and An Artist of The Floating World, have been selected for this paper to meticulously scrutinize the role being played by memory in the lives of two characters Etsuko and Masuji Ono in the respective novels in validating the identity of the present selves by delving deep into the earlier selves.