In the novel Silas Marner, by George Eliot, the characters are in search of happiness. A character named Godfrey Cass is disappointed in his search when relying on wealth and luck, instead of love, does not lead him to happiness. Another character, Silas Marner, first looks at a pile of gold which only consumes his life until he begins to love and care for a child, who finally brings him happiness. The lives of these characters show that wealth or material objects do not bring as much happiness as love. Godfrey Cass believes he can use his wealth to buy happiness in place of the love he neglected to give. In the novel, he has a daughter named Eppie whom he disowns for eighteen years. After eighteen years, Godfrey wants her to come back to fill a void in his life and make him happy. He believes his wealth can replace his missing love. He admits this when speaking to Eppie: "Even though I haven't been what a father should have been to you all these years, I want to do everything in my power for you for the rest of my life and provide for yourself as much as possible. my only child” (714). However, Eppie "cannot feel that she has only one father" (715), that is, Silas Marner, who cared for and loved her for sixteen years old. The lack of love Godfrey gave Eppie cannot be replaced by wealth, and Godfrey's life must remain incomplete. Silas Marner was once incomplete and unhappy as well when he was “cut off from faith and love” (602) and lived only to live. gather a treasure of gold. He shut out the rest of the world and any love he had for anything. “His life had been reduced to the functions of weaving and accumulation” (602). In this life with only gold and no love, Silas was an unhappy and lonely man. Later in life, when he is happy, he remembers counting his gold every night and "how utterly desolate his soul was" (710). He remains in this grim situation for fifteen years until his gold is lost and replaced with something to love. When Silas loses his gold, he begins to experience happiness again after opening up to a child. The child, Eppie, replaces Silas's gold, but unlike gold, she requires a person's love and care..