How would a Realist writer treat the subject of death? How would death be discussed? How would characters deal with it or experience it?

1. Death in the 19th century has always had been a favorite subject of the Romantics and of many other writers who came after them. It is viewed as the ultimate existential issue, one which arouses terrible worries as it offers a way toward true self-discovery.

2. Realism maybe described as a "try" to make a surface appearance of the normal life of people in their daily endeavor. Death is frequently treated as a subject in literature. Death is discussed as man’s consciousness of mortality giving it a reflection and reasons of its existence.

3. Characters may fall into a pit of sadness. Coping up from the loss is always illustrated as a very stressful experience the character has to go through.