Wang Lung's Connections To The Earth In The Good Earth

In The Good Earth, there are many settings that hold significance, and one is Wang Lung's fields, where his connections to the Earth are strongest. As long as he remembers all it has done for him, he lives a peaceful life. "But still one thing remained to him and it was his love for his land. He had gone away from it and he had set up his house in a town and he was rich. But his roots were in his land and although he forgot it for many months together, when spring came each year he must go out on to the land" (256). Wang Lung's agricultural background has been dormant to him during his years where he craved excitement, but in the end in he is compelled to return. With his own labor, he has harvested crops and invested much of his time cultivating his fields, and his hard work has paid …show more content…
Another place that is important is Kiangsu, a city in the South. When Wang Lung's village was in a drought, he and his family were forced to move there to survive. There, a man attempted to tell him that laboring the land didn't matter as long as the rich shared their plentiful wealth among everyone, but Wang Lung still believed to himself, "Yes, but there was the land. Money and food are eaten and gone, and if there is not sun and rain in proportion, there is again hunger." (90). What Wang Lung means is that money and food is only temporary, while if one maintains land, there will always be food as long as the weather is fair. Wang Lungs time in the city indicates nothing on his perspective of being a farmer has changed; by showing he has seem an entirely different lifestyle of industrial city-goers, but no alternations of his morals, further emphasizes his faith in the earth. A final setting of great significance is the House of Hwang, where Wang Lung and his family resided in his later