All of the Following information can be found at http://www.kutztown.edu/faculty/reagan/buck.html The Good Earth by: Pearl S. Buck A book about Chinese culture and life, ”Wang Lung is the central figure in the Good Earth. He is a simple, hard-working Chinese farmer. " The portrayal of Wang Lung’s character is starkly frank. His strengths and weaknesses are candidly examined and bared before the reader; and while, on the basis …showed first 75 words of 658 total…

…showed last 75 words of 658 total…and limited in vocabulary, therefore, if the story was told from his point of view it would also be limited by this vocabulary. The story is told and events depicted as they relate to Wang Lung. The narrator does not explain aspects of life that Wang Lung would not know. The Good Earth is in the form of a biography. The story is told chronologically from the main characters young manhood to his old age.