Wang Lung Character Analysis

Wang Lung’s personality has really changes since he has become rich. He is no longer the man who used to discriminate against women, and collected money as if it was his treasure to keep for a better lifestyle for his family. He has become like the old man in House of Hwang because he is not spending his money on concubines, as showed in the end of the chapter, but it is also greedy about his reputation after having so much money, that was stolen. Although he did show some kindness towards Ching, his neighbour but that was only because he helped him and his wife, O-lan during difficult times. He also hired a lot of men for one year to work on his field, but now that the fields are flooded he told them to work on his house and repairing it from the damage of the flood. …show more content…
Also he not only forced O-lan to wear different clothes, and alter herself to the way the society would like her to dress and look now that she is married to a rich man. In addition, Wang Lung has not only forgotten that the only reason he is rich right now is because of O-lan as if she had never stolen or Wang Lung would have never found the jewels, they would just be another middle class family in the village like the rest of the farmers. All the money he has now is because of O-lan, however is the process of becoming number one in the village has blinded him from seeing the importance of his wife. Therefore, when he had the conversation with O-lan he did not just criticize her on looking ugly, but also criticized that her feet were not blinded and were too