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Unlock with LitCharts A +. Chapter 21 Quotes. “It's gone, child," he [Silas Marner] said, at last, in strong agitation—“Lantern Yard's gone. It must ha' been here, because here's the house with the o'erhanging window—I know that—it's just the same; but they've made this new opening; and see that big factory!
Explanation and Analysis—Pregnant Words: In Chapter 19, when Godfrey Cass and Nancy offer Eppie a home and reveal that Godfrey is her true father, Silas is horrified at the prospect of having another Cass steal his "gold" from him. This time, though, it's because he has become a father in every way that matters to Eppie, and Eliot uses a ...
Imagery. The child awakens, crying, and Silas Marner is kept busy feeding her porridge and following her tottering steps about his house. He removes her wet boots and realizes, finally, that she must have been walking in the snow and entered his house on foot. As he opens the door, the child cries, “Mammy!”.
George Eliot presents Eppie as an angel-like figure, golden-haired and innocent. Her role in Marner’s life is to save him from isolation and darkness, as an angel might have done. Need help with Chapter 14 in George Eliot's Silas Marner? Check out our revolutionary side-by-side summary and analysis.
Ants, like Silas Marner, are associated with total devotion to work and with stockpiling supplies and nesting materials. When his gold disappears, the old weaver is "baffled by a blank," like an ant whose journey to the nest is physically interrupted. He cannot understand the scene in front of him.
Silas Marner: Chapter 1 Summary & Analysis. In the early 1800s, when spinning wheels were popular in farmhouses and prosperous houses alike, solitary men traveled across the English countryside, seeking work as weavers. Inhabitants of small towns were wary of strangers such as these weavers, suspicious of anyone or anything from a world not ...
Analysis. From a distance, Godfrey watches Eppie grow up in Silas Marner ’s care. Occasionally he does what he can to help the weaver, but he does not want to do too much and raise suspicion. Godfrey seems determined and firm. Dunstan has not returned and Godfrey no longer feels the threat of his brother’s presence.
