What is being compared? He sprang through the waves and caught her, then crouched amid ships,
Avoiding sure death, while a great wave bobbled the boat
This way and that with the current. As when in autumn
The North Wind blows close-clinging ball of thistles
About the fields, even so the winds were driving
That boat of his this way and that on the sea.

The literature of nineteenth-century realism depicted everyday life in a realistic way. which statements show that leo tolstoy’s the death of ivan ilyich is a realist text? the description of human struggles in the form of ivan ilyich’s suffering the faithfulness of relationships that ivan ilyich experiences toward the end of his life the romantic tension that occurs between ivan ilyich and his wife the difference between superficial and authentic living the plot ending with a surprising turn of events