Silas Marner
What is Silas Marner's trade? weaver cooper teacher Who was the first person to pay Marner in gold? MRS. OSGOOD MRS. WINTHROP SALLY OATES What adjective best describes Dunstan Cass? cruel good affectionate lazy Fill in the blanks. Silas Marner, a weaver, is an eager and promising young member of a Puritan religious community, Lantern Yard. Marner's supposed best friend, Willam Dane, frames him for the theft of a pouch of coins. Marner suffers from cataleptic fits which leave him as insensible as stone and vulnerable to Dane's frame-up. The community of Lantern Yard draws lots to determine Marner's guilt or innocence in the crime. After the lots proclaim Marner guilty, he flees from Lantern Yard, utterly crushed, leaving behind his faith in God and in humankind. Fill in the blanks. Silas Marner, the Weaver of Raveloe, published in 1861, is unique among George Eliot'swritings for its brevity and its apparent allegorical clarity.