Silas Marner Themes - Money

Question 1

Give 7 quotes to show how money isolates Silas and replaces companionship for him

Answer 1

“the love of accumulating money grows an absorbing passion”
“his money, as he hung over it and saw it grown, gathered his power of loving together into a hard isolation”
“the money had come to mark off the loops of his weaving, and nothing else”
“drew them out to enjoy their companionship”
“friendly faces”
“he loved them all”
“as if they had been unborn children”

Question 2

Give 1 quote linking Dunstan and money

Answer 2

“The idea of Marner’s money kept growing in vividness”

Question 3

Give 2 quotes linking Eppie and money

Answer 3

“golden curls”
“Gold! - his own gold - brought back to him as mysteriously as it had been taken away!”

Question 4

Give 1 quote that shows what Silas did with his money

Answer 4

“He spread them out in heaps and bathed his hands in them”