However, there is still the issue of the child. Godfrey hated this marriage, and with his wife dead, he realizes he has the ability to marry his true love, Nancy Lammiter. His hopes are realized Molly overdosed and died in the snow. Godfrey, hoping the woman is dead, follows the doctor and Silas.

When he arrives, Godfrey recognizes the child as his from his secret marriage to a woman named Molly, a fact which Dunstan was using as blackmail. Seeing the tracks in the snow and then discovering the dead body, Silas goes to the Cass house to fetch the doctor. Silas, awaking from a trance, at first thinks the child is his gold returned to him. A small child, having left her dying mother's arms, toddles into his cottage. On New Year’s Eve, leaving his door open, Silas gets an unlikely visitor. He ended up killing the horse before delivering it and receiving the money, leading him to steal from Silas. However, when money ran short, he offered to sell Godfrey’s horse, Wildfire. Dunstan, the Squire's son, had been in the business of blackmailing his older brother Godfrey. Later in the story, plots converge when Silas has all his money stolen from him by Dunstan Cass, a conniving aristocrat from town. He works at his trade, weaving, and isolates himself so that he can never be hurt like he was before.

There, he replaces people and human interaction with money. Exiled, he moves from Lantern Yard to the idyllic English country side of Raveloe, a farming community. In the beginning of the novel, the protagonist, Silas, loses his friends, his faith, and his fiancé when he is framed for theft. Silas Marner is a tale of love and overcoming setbacks. How does social upbringing influence personal characteristics and behaviors?.How do people cope with extreme despair?.What are the consequences of being a victim of lies, gossip, or rumors?.

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