The Weaver
The Squire's Sons
Godfrey's Women
Symbols
100
Name of his adopted daughter
Hepzibah "Eppie"
100
Blackmails his brother for money
Dunsey
100
Married to Godfrey Cass
Molly Farren and Nancy Lammeter
100
Represents Silas' past
Lantern Yard
200
How he tries to punish the child
Putting her in the coal hole
200
Steals money from his father by not passing on a tenant's rent
Godfrey
200
Wants to confront her husband at his family's New Year's Eve party
Molly Farren
200
Always moving but never going anywhere; also shows interconnectedness
Loom
300
Helps him most in learning how to care for the child
Dolly Winthrop
300
What is found when the stone-pit is drained
Dunsey's body and Silas' gold
300
For whom he pays for things and donates furniture
Eppie
300
Represents home/family since it is the physical center of a household
Hearth
400
Silas' first thought on realizing the "gold" on his hearth is actually a little girl
His long dead little sister come back in a dream
400
What townspeople believed happened to Dunsey
Became a soldier or gone "out of the country"
400
Nancy's reaction to Godfrey's confession to a previous marriage and child
Regrets not knowing so could have adopted Eppie
400
Represents Silas' isolation and exclusion from human affection and love
Gold
500
Why Silas returns to Lantern Yard
To learn if he was cleared of his crime
500
Why Godfrey believes he doesn't have children in his marriage to Nancy
Punishment for not having claimed daughter at first
500
Nancy's reason for not wanting to adopt
Believes it would be against will of Providence since didn't have children of their own
500
Represents community and familiarity as well as Silas' new faith in humanity and love
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