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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Pearl Buck’s The Good Earth, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1932.
As a novel of the mid-twentieth century, The Good Earth was inspired by Buck’s experience living in China during the Boxer rebellion with her missionary pa
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THE GOOD EARTH
TEXTUAL ANALYSIS
CHAPTER ONE
The story begins on the wedding day of Wang Lung. He rises early, bathes himself, and goes into town where he is to meet his bride. Because his mother is dead, he must shop for the food for the wedding feast; at the market he buys some pork and some beef. He has himself shaven at the barber’s so as to present a perfectly clean appearance when he meets his bride. When he first goes to the House of Hwang for O-lan, his bride, he is frightened; he leaves and returns later. The gateman brings Wang Lung in to the Old Mistress who gives O-lan to him and the two return together to the house of Wang Lung’s father. On the way, the young man stops to burn incense before the gods. That evening some friends and relatives come to the house to help Wang Lung celebrate his wedding. O-lan prepares the food, but she does not appear before the strange men since she cannot be seen by others until after the first night of
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