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In the novel The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck illustrates how hard work and conservative living can bring about wealth later in life. Wang Lung is a very hard worker who’s frugal living led him to good fortune in his later years. With the aid of his wife O-lan and good friend Ching, he became a very wealthy man. This wealth did not come easy, it was the product of many years of hard work and an abstemious lifestyle. Wang Lung was a man who worked very hard his entire life. From the beginning of the story Wang has worked hard on his land in order to make a good living for his family. Wang worked by himself on his farm for six years after his mother died. On the day that he got married to O-lan, he acquired another pair of hands to help him work. Wang worked hard on his land but when the famine came around, he had to mov