![]() ![]() ![]() He doesn’t attend church services and becomes a recluse in the town. As a result, his income increases, and he falls into the habit of counting his gold coins each day. He continues to weave, and the demand for his work is steady. When he moves into a little house, Silas still has one aspect of his life that remains constant, his work. Upon moving to Raveloe, Silas’ loneliness is compounded by a robbery. Through the story of Silas, the novel punctuates how cruel and then how fortuitous fate is in life. Silas, through no fault of his own, must live as best he can in his new town of Raveloe. Silas moves to another town after being effectively banished from his native Lantern Yard. SILAS MARNER by George Eliot tells the tale of a weaver in nineteenth-century England named Silas Marner, who finds himself fallen among hard times when he is falsely accused of a crime, and the woman he expects to marry suddenly marries someone else. ![]()
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