Silas Marner's life, prior to Eppie was pretty much
self-centered. He had suffered so much trauma and deceit in his former town of Lantern
Yard that he chose to implode and remain isolated, caring only for making money and
figuring out how to keep it away from everyone else. Isolation made Silas quite bitter
and had him lose touch with reality: The reality that humans are meant to interconnect,
interact, and sometimes depend on each other.
When Silas
suffered the major flop of having all of his gold stolen, he went into a frenzy that
reminds one of his awful situation at Lantern Yard prior to moving to Raveloe. However,
in one of those moments where he felt that life was out of his control, he finds the
baby Eppie by the fire of his cottage, after she crawled away from his dead mother.
Caring for Eppie, with her gold locks, was to Silas a sign from heaven that, maybe if he
cared for this gold-haired child, his own gold will return to him in due time. Yet, the
relationship grew strong, and made Silas find something to care about . In fact, Eppie
did not want to leave Silas's side and Silas was perfectly comfortable taking care of
her.
Eppie gave him a new reason to live. She was the new
motivation for his existence and he was a new man thanks to
Eppie.
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