Assess the style, tone, and content of the following passage and determine if it is the work of an American Romantic or American Realist.

“The correspondent plainly saw the soldier. He lay on the sand with his feet out straight and
still. While his pale left hand was upon his chest in an attempt to thwart the going of his life.
the blood came between his fingers. In the far Algerian distance, a city of low square forms
was set against a sky that was faint with the last sunset hues."

A. American Romantic

B. American Realist