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Line 7: ----- {{tropelist}} ~~=== ''The Good Earth'' contains the following tropes: ===~~ * [[Arranged Marriage]] * [[Homage]]: The last part of the story, to ''[[King Lear]]''. As a [[Shout -Out]], Wang Lung consistently refers to his mentally impaired daughter (the only child he winds up caring for in the end) as his "poor fool", a quote from Lear about Cordelia ("My poor fool is hang'd"). * [[Impoverished Patrician]]: The House of Hwang, which is forced to sell most of their properties to Wang Lung * [[Jerkass]]: Wang Lung to variable degrees, particularly his treatment of O-Lan. Actually, most of the characters could fall under this trope, Line 19: * [[Shaming the Mob]]: O-Lan manages to disperse an angry, starving mob who try to steal food from the equally poor and starving Wang Lung household. * [[The Disease That Shall Not Be Named]]: O-Lan's illness, likely cancer. * [[Unto Us a Son ~~And~~and Daughter Are Born]]: The twins. * [[Wife Husbandry]]: Wang Lung and Pear Blossom * [[Yellowface]]: The Chinese characters were played by white actors. Chinese American actress Annas May Wong wanted to play O-Lan; however, she was not allowed to play Paul Muni's wife, due to the [[Hays Code]]'s anti-miscegenation rule. {{reflist}} {{Pulitzer Prize for Fiction}} [[Category:Lit Fic]] [[Category:Academy Award]] [[Category:The Good Earth]] [[Category:Multiple Works Need Separate Pages]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Good Earth, The}} [[Category:Literature]]