Answer:
Read the novel again, and then make connections yourself! Here are my notes on realism:
Realism in Art & Literature
Accurate or realistic portrayal of life
· Ordinary occurrences and/or ordinary characters
o peasants,
o businessmen,
o housewives
· Deals with daily struggles and/or disappointments of ordinary characters
· Not always a happy ending; things don't always work out
· Detached observation,
o recording facts to describe their characters
o Objective descriptions
· Upper class characters portrayed with faults, rather than idealized (unlike heroism in Romanticism)