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As we can see from Wang Lung’s father’s words that always advice him to marry to a hardworking woman instead of a beautiful woman so that she will carry out the housechores in their household. Even Wang Lung’s second son also states that he wished to marry with a maid. Perhaps he wants to be served by his wife and helps him to carry out the daily routine and housechores.

After Wang Lung brings O-Lan back from the House of Hwang, he orders O-Lan to cook and prepare meals for his family, as the quotes goes “Here is pork and here beef and fish. There are seven to eat. Can you prepare food?”(Buck, 23)O-Lan replies by saying that she knows how to cook and prepare meals because she is a kitchen slave since her first day entered to the House of Hwang in order to convince him that she is able to carry out the housechores perfectly and completely.

“The woman ……took the bamboo rake and a length of rope and with these she roamed the countryside…returning at noon with enough to cook the dinner. In the afternoon, she took a hoe and with these upon her shoulder …without commanded to do them” (Buck, 29)

As mentioned by the quotes above, O-Lan also helps Wang Lung in the land besides doing housechores everyday. The author describes O-Lan as a strong person because she can adapt to the harsh environment and life and at the end, she manages to overcome it. For example, she is described by the author that she does not need any midwife to give birth to all of her six children.

The Old Mistress from the Great House of Hwang orders O-Lan to carry out her duty by obeying to Wang Lung’s demands and instructions absolutely without any questioning and produce him with a lot of sons, as the quotes goes “Obey him and bear him sons and yet more sons. Bring the first child to me to see” (Buck, 19) If you will give me three silver pieces…I shall make the cloth dealer give me the last inch to the foot.”(Buck, 35) This quote shows that O-Lan even prepares the clothes for Wang Lung’s new born son by using the three pieces of silver money given by Wang Lung to make it. Following this further, O-Lan even tries to beg in order to help her family to overcome their financial problems during the moment at South.

Being totally so different from a wife, a concubine always only acts as a “sex devices” for a man during that time just to fulfill men’s sexual desire. For instance, Lotus Flower and Pearl Blossom is Wang Lung’s concubine. Wang Lung purposely builds another court solely for Lotus Flower so that he can satisfy his sexual desire there.

This clearly shows to us that a wife and a concubine will never be let to live together to avoid any unwanted incident. In short, the role of a concubine is totally different from the roles plays by a wife. O-Lan is a working wife who takes care of her children while Lotus Flower is just to fulfill his master’s sexual desire and pleasure. Hence, we can say that women are always being tortured by their husband to do a lot of torturing and killing works like O-Lan, which can be considered as a form of oppression.