The_Good_Earth

The Good Earth I. Characters * MAIN CHARACTERS Wang Lung Wang Lung is a simple, hardworking Chinese farmer. He is the main character or central figure in the story of ‘The Good Earth’. Most of the story is told through his eyes. Wang is warm, believable, and sympathetic. But as a human, he also has his flaws. He is quite temperamental and often acts on impulse and also seems to care too much of what other people may think of him so he tends to give in to situations too easily. He depends greatly on his wife O-lan who gives him strength and decisiveness. As he grows older he only finds peace in his land. The land is his livelihood, his security and the source from which he draws spiritual refreshment. O-lan O-lan could be characterized as the most appealing character in the book. She doesn’t really express herself through words but one can learn a great deal of her thoughts and feelings from her actions. Her poor parents sold her to the great Hwang household at the age of ten, during a famine. O-lan was a good worker and so was kept as a kitchen slave. When she turned twenty, she was sold to be good, earth, wang, family, lung’s, land, wang’s, household, wife, town, o-lan, lung, son, house, daughter, becomes, after, woman, story, sons, one, lotus, life, great, good, girl, father, farmer, famine, children, care, wealth, uncle’s, slave, second, peace, own, old, much, however, during, demands, chinese, book, years, women, wealthy, through, third, takes, status, south