The 19th century realism movement emerged as a reaction to the romantic period. what subject realism focus on a. the daily lives of ordinary people b. the sentimentalizing of events in a story c. the absurdity of human existence d. the spiritual decay of modern society

Which statement best summarizes this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich? and in imagination he began to recall the best moments of his pleasant life. but strange to say none of those best moments of his pleasant life now seemed at all what they had then seemed—none of them except the first recollections of childhood. there, in childhood, there had been something really pleasant with which it would be possible to live if it could return. but the child who had experienced that happiness existed no longer, it was like a reminiscence of somebody else.