Wang Lung Analysis

Ching predicts that there will a flood that year, and when he told that to Wang Lung, Wang Lung started to speak ill about the gods. This continuously occurred and Ching did not say a word, so when the flood came Ching would have blamed it on Wang Lung for talking ill about the gods. Also when Ching asks Wang Lung to stop talking ill about the god, and that they will punish him one day for what he was saying, Wang LUng did not care. This not only shows that he's a rich arrogant man who does not have time for his own business just because he has hired someone else to do it for him, but also that once he used to worship these gods, and he used to pray for a good harvest, but now instead of that he is talking ill about them. Back in the story Wang Lung was the one who went out with O-lan to get a portrait of the earth gods to put in his house, when he first got rich, but now just because he has more money than anyone in the village he treats himself as if he was god.
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Also his uncle’s son is a huge “tiger” to him, he misbehaves with the elder’s wife, but also tried to misbehave with the second daughter. At first Wang Lung was like, he has to do it because otherwise his uncle will make more than half the village against him, but when he caught his uncle’s son misbehaving with his second daughter, he was mad. So he suggested that he would talk to Liu, and ask him whether he could keep his second daughter, his soon to be daughter-in-law, in his house until they get married for her safety. With the demanding of money, and aliver to buy goods for themselves, the uncle’s family are well treated in the house compared to the rest of the