Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Eppie, symbolizing the gold Silas lost. Evil Stole My Faith: Silas's mistreatment by his church in his backstory causes him to lose his belief in religion, but he recovers some faith as the novel progresses. Everyone Has Standards: While nobody in Raveloe likes Silas or his miserly ways much at that point in the story, he's clearly so utterly and profoundly devastated by the loss of his money that they can't help but immediately take pity on him. Et Tu, Brute?: Silas's backstory involves being framed by his best friend. Steve Martin produced, wrote and starred in a modern-day movie adaptation of Silas Marner called A Simple Twist of Fate, released in 1994.Ĭontains examples of the following tropes: It is now in the public domain, and can be read in its entirety here. 
Moving to the small town of Raveloe, he leads a quiet, lonely life where he hoards his money and is treated with suspicion by the townspeople until he is struck by tragedy, and then redemption, shortly thereafter. It concerns Marner, a weaver unfairly forced out of his home village after being framed for robbery. Unlike other Eliot novels, Silas Marner is a very compact book with a straightforward narrative and very few subplots.
Silas Marner is an 1861 novel written by George Eliot.
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