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Godfrey is wracked with disappointment. He's been urging her to
adopt Eppie, but Nancy feels it's against the will of God to
adopt a child who is not her own. Then the stone-pit beside
Silas' cottage is drained to create new fields. Dunstan's
skeleton is discovered at the bottom, clutching Silas' gold.
Shaken by the sight, Godfrey tells Nancy the truth about his
first marriage. To his surprise, she agrees to adopt Eppie,
Godfrey's real daughter.

They go to Marner's cottage with their proposal. Though
Silas' gold has been restored to him, he's distraught at the
prospect of losing his second, more precious treasure, Eppie.
But he lets Eppie make her own choice--and she chooses to stay
with Silas. Godfrey and Nancy return home, sad but reconciled.
In the spring, Eppie marries Aaron and they walk back to Silas'
cottage to live with him.

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SILAS MARNER: SILAS MARNER

When she first conceived of the story of Silas Marner, George
Eliot thought immediately of one of her favorite poets, William
Wordsworth. He was the first to show country life realistically
in poetry, as Eliot was the first in prose fiction. To some
degree, Silas Marner is a typical Wordsworthian hero--a simple,
instinctual creature, with limited education and imagination,
whose life has a natural dignity. But a novel works differently
from a poem, and Silas Marner is an unlikely hero for a novel.
It isn't just that he's poor, although before George Eliot few
authors cast working folk in major roles in novels. It isn't
just that he's skinny and pale, with bulging brown
eyes--physically unattractive heroes, like Shakespeare's Richard
III or Cervantes' Don Quixote, can make powerful literary
material. And it isn't just that he's a loner and an alien in
Raveloe. Outsiders have made great heroes throughout
literature, from Shakespeare's Othello to Emily Bronte's
Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights to R. P. McMurphy in Kesey's
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. These, however, are
charismatic, complex personalities. Silas Marner is not. Yet
George Eliot gives this simple linen-weaver all the attention
most authors save for their most glamorous characters.

Some readers see Silas as a fairy-tale character, like the
typical poor old woodcutter who endures poverty and misery in
lonely silence for years. In this, he is also like a biblical
character, Job. (Silas, however, loses his faith when he is
unjustly punished, whereas Job heroically hangs on to his faith
while God tests him with rounds of suffering.) Silas simply
seems the plaything of some great force guiding the universe,
whose plan is inscrutable and maybe even unfair. He's subject