The first similarity is that in both culture the families are poor. For example, in the novel The Good Earth, the main character, Wang Lung worked in small farm. Wangs didn’t have much money because there is no money to buy crops. Wang Lung didn’t have much money to buy new window and he put paper away everywhere in his home, According to the text, Wang Lung’s father said that “Why are you wasteful? Tea is like eating silver.” (pg. 293 line 109). The author that “.... a small square hole of a wind, where the tattered paper fluttered, a glimpse of bronze sky gleamed. He went to the hole and tore the paper away.( pg.291 line 13-17) Similarly, In the novel Nectar in a Sieve, Ira’s mother didn’t have much money to pay for dowry. She had