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What is the significance of Gold in the novel, 'Silas Marner'.

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  • gold becomes the centerpiece of Silas' life after he started earning
  • had lost faith in humanity-distanced from church 
  • lives in isolation, devoted to weaving and hoarding gold 
  • gold stolen by Dunsey, Silas shattered  
  • life means a little only after having Eppie in his life  
  • her golden hair comfort her like his lost gold 

gold symbolic of Silas himself- hard, sterile, purposeless, faithless



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