Detailed study of Silas Marner
Chapter 13
My chapter happens just after the most important chapter in the whole of the Novel.It is the chapter after Silas finds Eppie in his cottage. This is a turningpoint in the story because after Eppie arrives, Silas no longer grieves over his stolen money and becomes more social.
The chapter I am studying is called “Silas brings the child to the red house”. In this chapter Silas brings Eppie to Godfreys house where the new years evening party is being held. He asks for the doctor because in the previous chapter he had found a women lying unconscious in the snow. Godfrey had secretely been married to a women called molly and had a child. When Silas Brings the little girl to his house Godfrey recognises her and realises that the women Silas found must be the girls mother, Molly. Godfrey rushes out to make sure that the women was dead because if she was he could then marry Nancy Lammeter. The women is dead and later on when he returns to the party at the red house he proposes to Nancy. He doesn’t own up to the fact that he was married to Molly and that the little girl is his child. Silas decides he wants to keep Eppie and calls her Eppie after his mother.
