Narrative Techniques of Pearl S. Buck in the Novel “The Good Earth”

Abstract

This study proposes to discuss the Narrative Techniques of Pearl S.Buck in the novel The Good Earth.According to Jane Austen, The novelists task is to write In which the most through knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humours, conveyed in the best chosen language.The first two phrases at least, are very well illustrated  by Pearl .Buck, and in this she was probably greatly influenced by Dickens. What she says of Dickens may be quoted to support   this argument, he gave me that zest, that immense joy in life and people, and in their variety' . She knew the people she wrote about with intimacy, having lived close to and with them in China and America. Of  her novels, the greatest are rich with the expression of this experience of the varieties of human nature, the joys and sorrows of life itself. This, precisely, is one of the major features of the saga, found in its concern with mundane, simple reality, as it is a people's storyPearl S Buck evidently is not a far cry from the old form of entertainment and preservation of people's histories in popular versions, judging by those strong similarities with the sagas .