The Following Is an Excerpt from ÉMile Zola's Germinal (Evaluating

The following is an excerpt from Émile Zola's Germinal (Evaluating the Evidence 22.3) : "The man had set out from Marchiennes about two o'clock. He walked with long strides, shivering beneath his worn cotton jacket and corduroy breeches. A small parcel tied in a check handkerchief troubled him much, and he pressed it against his side, sometimes with one elbow, sometimes with the other, so that he could slip to the bottom of his pockets both the benumbed hands that bled beneath the lashes of the wind. A single idea occupied his head-the empty head of a workman without work and without lodging-the hope that the cold would be less keen after sunrise."
This passage is an example of

A) Nihilism.
B) Classicism.
C) Romanticism.
D) Realism.