![]() ![]() And when daughters are born, families often see them as burdens and sometimes kill them or sell them as slaves when they need money in hard times, just as Wang Lung himself considers selling his eldest daughter, the “poor fool,” as a slave when his family is living in the city. Families strongly value male children over female children. ![]() This society’s oppression of women is most obviously evident in the fact that it refers to newborn babies as “men” or “slaves” rather than “boys” or “girls.” These names aren’t just names, either. In either case, men consider women to essentially be their slaves, either as their unfailingly willing helpers or as providers of sexual satisfaction. ![]() The male characters see women within a dichotomy, meaning that there are only two options for their perception of women-as silent, obedient, honorable women, or as “whores” -and very little wiggle room exists between these roles. In The Good Earth, Buck portrays an extremely patriarchal society in which men hold almost complete power over women. ![]()
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