Guy de Maupassant's work are deemed naturalistic because his characters are usually the working class and they are often portrayed in a very harsh conditions of real life where misery is prevalent.
Majority of his themes are about war and German occupation. His stories focus more on women, especially those who are victims and prostitutes. A lot of his stories also focus of depression, paranoia, and madness usually resulting to death and destruction.
If you read each of these, or speak them, there is only one that suits the sentence correctly.
Go with the third one. Couldn't seems to fit pretty well there.
Which element of fiction dominates the passage above?
A- characterization of the narrator
B-development of the plot
C- illustration of the setting
D- advance
That correct answer is: A: Characterization of the narrator