Answer» - After all the years Silas Marner spends in forced isolation, obsessively gathering gold, and focusing on nothing but himself
- Silas loves his gold, works for it, and looks forward to viewing it and holding it in his hands each evening.
- He even comes to love the faces engraved on the coins as if they were his friends.
- Dunsey Cass, the wretched son of the town's squire, steals Silas's beloved gold and runs away.
- But, as is made clear when Eppie appears, in his miserliness Silas has wasted his love on something that has no capacity to reciprocate
- golden hair of the baby make him connect with the world
- provides enrichment of the soul.
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