How It All Goes Down
We bet you're wondering where the Brief and Sparse plot summary is. Look, we're not magicians! There is nothing brief or sparse about The Good Earth, so let's offer you this instead.
Here's our super brief and super sparse plot summary.
First there was the land. Wang Lung was a farmer who lived on that land. Then he got married, got rich, and had kids. Wang Lung moved away from land. Then problems started. When he got older, Wang Lung remembered the land, but it was too late. His children have already forgotten the land, and it's easy to see that more trouble is coming.