Aaron Winthrop's View

My name is Aaron and I am the husband of Eppie, the adopted daughter of weaver Silas Marner, who also lives in Lantern Yard; this is a retelling of Marner's loss and redemption. Silas Marner is a respected member of our religious town and highly thought of in his church. He is supposed to marry Sarah, a servant girl, but she marries another parishioner whose deceit about Silas stealing from him causes Marner's expulsion from the parish. The betrayal of his beloved and a fellow churchgoer causes Silas to become a loner, living in the village of Raveloe: "Minds that have been unhinged from their old faith and love have perhaps sought this Lethean influence of exile in which the past becomes dreamy" (Eliot 12). The betrayal makes Silas turn away from life and take up an existence focused on work

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