IntroductionWhat happens when we stop asking whether Wang Lung was right or wrong and begin asking why he became the man he became?Pearl S. Buck’s The Good Earth is often remembered as a story about poverty, land, family, and the dangers of wealth. Yet beneath Wang Lung’s rise from struggling farmer to prosperous landowner are harder questions about human … [Read more...] about The Good Earth: What Scholars Reveal About Wang Lung and O-lan