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# Silas Marner

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Gold and golden hair
  

*by E***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 24, 2015*

In the nineteenth century, men didn't typically adopt children by themselves. Even today, it's a relative rarity -- when a single person adopts a baby, it's usually a woman.But the exception proves the rule in "Silas Marner," George Eliot's novel about a hermit-like weaver whose life is changed forever when a child wanders into his house. While Eliot explores the pliancy of gender roles and qualities, at heart this is just a heartwarming story about love and family. The ending is rather predictable and a little sappy, but it's a pleasant glimpse of English village life in the 1800s.Weaver Silas Marner moves to the town of Raveloe, and takes up residence far from other people. Nobody knows why, except for the readers -- he was betrayed by his best friend, dumped by his girlfriend, framed for a robbery and expelled from his church. He also suffers from cataleptic seizures, as if life for him didn't suck enough. Now he wants just to be alone in his remote house, and hoard the gold that he earns over fifteen years of weaving cloth.Then one night, the squire's dissolute younger son Dunsey Cass steals his gold and vanishes from the town, leaving Silas without the one thing he has come to love. Meanwhile, Dinsey's older brother Godfrey is freaking out because of an ill-advised marriage to a poor drug addict, which would probably get him disinherited if his strict father knew.But then the wife is found frozen to death in a blizzard, and her toddler child -- Godfrey's daughter -- wanders into Silas' house. And to the surprise of all Raveloe, Silas declares that since "it's a lone thing—and I'm a lone thing," and that he's going to care for the child from now on. This adoption will not only change Silas' life, but Godfrey's as well -- and as the child Eppie grows to adulthood, will finally bring about the admission of long-hidden secrets.As a woman who wrote serious literature in a time when women's literary skills were scoffed at, George Eliot knew something about the bendability of gender roles. Even though the main character is a heterosexual male, she subtly positions him as having a strong feminine side -- he has a job associated with femininity ("you're partly as handy as a woman, for weaving comes next to spinning"), he's the perceived successor of the local hedgewitch, and he has nothing to do with the "manly man" pursuits of boozing it up in the local pub every night, as literally all the local men do.And, of course, he cares for a young child with the tenderness and soft-heartedness that was usually attributed to women, not men. And yet, Eliot never treats this character with anything but respect -- he is not seen as less than other men because he has traditionally feminine traits, but as MORE. And these traits are ultimately what brings him happiness, love and friendship from everyone in the community.But while Silas is the center of the story, Eliot fleshes out the village of Raveloe with deft strokes, from the wealthy (Godfrey and his insufferable girlfriend/wife Nancy) to the ordinary working-class folks whose lives intersect with Silas'. And she knows both the good and bad of these communities -- they have good hearts and kindness, but they also tend to be kind of judgmental and ignorant of people different from themselves. The best example of this is Dolly, a smart, take-charge woman who becomes Silas' best friend and advisor.And twined together with Silas's story is the story of Godfrey, whose life withers as Silas' blooms. He's essentially a very weak man who shies away from telling the unpleasant truth to anyone, and misses out on fatherhood because of it. It's hard to see why he is so enamored of Nancy, though -- she's a rigid, moralistic priss who holds everyone to her impossibly high standards (for instance, she's opposed to adoption because she's decided, based on nothing at all, that it's against God's will).The story's biggest problem? Well, in some regards the story is rather predictable, with a heartwarming ending that borders on sappy. More subtle handling is given to Silas revisiting his old home, and discovering what has come of the betrayals he's suffered."Silas Marner" is a fascinating little novella, twining together a story about love and family with a subtle message on gender roles. Not bad for such a simple little story.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    From the days of high school…
  

*by J***I on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 7, 2019*

…which was a while back… I retain the memory of the assessment of some of my fellow classmates: “the most boring novel ever!” (as though they had read a lot). Somehow, I missed this “bullet of boring” back then and was able to read “The Catcher in the Rye” instead.Rather late in life, I finally got around to reading George Eliot. The impetus was an excellent offering from the Vine Program, Rebecca Mead’s “My Life in Middlemarch,” which I read and reviewed in 2014. Mead has read “Middlemarch” four times, roughly once a decade, commencing when she was 17. It is that proverbial river, which is different each time, when one puts one’s foot into it, according to Mead. Rather than immediately jump into “Middlemarch,” decided to first read “The Mill on the Floss,” also in ’14. It took another half decade before I tackled “Middlemarch,” which I found to be immensely satisfying. Those two tomes should quench the thirst of most Eliot seekers, yet I had this nagging need to read her shorter work, written in between the tomes, to reflect on that high school assessment of utter tedium.In reading “Marner” after “Middlemarch,” there was an element of a prequel to the book. Both are set in small villages in the very heart of “Merry Ol’ England.” Transportation is by foot or horse. London is a very distant abstraction. The time period can only be deduced by the prosperity that a war is providing the farmers, in terms of demand for their products. What war? I could only guess the Napoleonic one, which places the novel in the early 19th century, before the advent of the railroad, which was featured in “Middlemarch.” “Marner” also foreshadows “Middlemarch,” which Eliot wrote a decade later, in the range of characters, the psychological introspection balanced with a plot that can move, surprise, and twist.Silas Marner is a thin, introverted weaver by trade, who arrives in the village of Raveloe after being falsely accused of theft in his home village. He mainly keeps to himself and works all the time. His fate becomes intertwined with the ne’er-do-well children of the village squire, Godfrey Cass, the eldest, and his younger brother, Dudsey. There are elements of greed, debts, horse trading and horse races, just as in “Middlemarch.” In “Marner” however, Eliot quite openly places drug addiction – to opium – in the plot. Religious authority, and the community of drinkers at the village tavern also play a part.The novel spans more than a 16-year period; thus, the aging process is also a key element, and its impact of the motivation of the characters. There were a couple of turns in the plot that seemed a bit contrived, and Marner’s relationship with his adopted daughter a bit too good to be true. Nonetheless, I find reading Eliot a bit addictive, and all too enjoyable and therefore will not dock her a star for these possible flaws. Overall, another 5-star novel.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Wonderful read
  

*by A***T on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 21, 2022*

Deserves to be on the Top 100 books to read. Well written and engaging. Probably what will happen in the future. Ugh. Can’t wait to read the next books.

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