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The "Forsytes" trilogy includes "The Man of Property", "Ride the Tiger" and "Rent", which focuses on the feud between the elder Jolyon and his son, the eldest brother, and James and Soames, the second son of the Forsyte family. "The Man of Land" opens with old Jolyon holding a tea party at his home to celebrate the engagement of his granddaughter Joan to the architect Philippe Bosinny. People from all the rooms in Forsyte came. The author took this opportunity to describe the men and women of this family in varying degrees. Of course, the focus is on the patriarch Jolyon, the second wife James and his son Soames, while the unruly architect Bosinny becomes the object of whispering among the aunts. There is also Soames' wife Irene. The author outlines a beautiful image in a few strokes, and reveals from James's ideological activities that she and Soames are not harmonious. In 1932, Galsworthy was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for the excellence of the art of description which reaches its climax in The Forsytes".

Galsworthy is famous for his novels, and his prose is also widely praised; his subject matter is rich, his vision is broad, and his narrative is eclectic. This book contains several sketches and memories of characters and landscapes, literary essays, prefaces and postscripts, and letter slips. Some of the works in the book use implicit brushwork and lyrical tones to reproduce the characters' personalities and outline portraits; others focus on rendering a certain artistic conception.