The Growth of Silas MarnerSilas Marner is introduced as a "pale young man, with prominent, near-sighted brown eyes" who led a quiet life in the small country community of Lantern . Court. He is a skilled weaver on a loom, with an “exemplary life and ardent faith”; His work, his friends and his faith play an important role in his life, making him an open and honest person. Silas certainly has an imperfect character, which is seen very clearly in his relationships with others. Of the money he earned as a weaver, he kept only a small part for himself, giving the rest to the church and to poorer people who needed it in the evangelical sect at which he belonged to. Silas is good, honest and vulnerable. human being. At first, he trusted the people he coexisted with, especially his best friend, William Dane. "The expression of trusting simplicity on Marner's face" and "that helpless, deer-like gaze" "contrasted sharply with the complacent suppression of the inner triumph which lurked in the narrow, slanted eyes and lips tablets by William Dane. a life of hard work and self-sacrifice following his simple religious faith until he was falsely accused of stealing money belonging to a very ill priest. Silas did nothing to try to defend himself, believing that God would help him prove his innocence, but after the drawing of lots, which were customary at the time to determine innocence or the guilt of a man, showed that Silas had in fact stolen the money, his deep faith in God was broken as was his faith in man. He had been betrayed by his best friend who. had framed him for the crime and married his fiancée, a servant called Sarah, suffered from cataleptic attacks where he went "into a mysterious rigidity and...... middle of paper ......time d 'writing - the good are rewarded while the bad are punished' (Letice 142). Works cited and consulted: Austen, Henry. Redemption by Silas Marner 1970. York: Oxford University Press, 1983. Bennett, Joan George Eliot, his mind and his art. Cambridge: The University Press, 1954. Eliot, George. London: Penguin Books. George Eliot Silas Marner. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Martin, Thomas. Essays of George Eliot. New York: Columbia University Press, 1963. Newton, K. M. George Eliot: A Study of the Philosophical Structure of. his novels Totowa, New Jersey: Barnes & Noble Books, 1981. Pangallo, Karen L. The critical response to George Eliot. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.