Wang Lung: An Honorable Character The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck, is a tale of a farmer who rises from a commoner to a wealthy land owner. The setting is in pre-revolutionary China, sometime in the 20th century. The story is about a farmer who becomes a wealthy man through hard work while facing droughts and floods. He becomes very rich, but forgets his true love, the earth, which got him to where he …showed first 75 words of 707 total…

…showed last 75 words of 707 total…is in the novel. Wang Lung has grown from a poor farmer to a rich man, he no longer has to go out and farm the land every day; he has workers to do it for him. In the novel, The Good Earth, Wang Lung is a very unique character and shows all of his characteristics through three honorable ways: his humble ways, the lustful characteristics he has, and his dedication throughout the whole novel.