# Silas Marner — Character guide

> Key figures in Silas Marner by George Eliot.

- [Silas Marner](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/silas_marner_se/characters/silas_marner.md): Silas lives at the edge of Raveloe's social world, a suspected miser whose trance-like fits and rootless past make him an outsider even to kindly neighbors like Mr. Macey. His life contracts to the rhythm of his loom and
- [Godfrey Cass](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/silas_marner_se/characters/godfrey_cass.md): Godfrey moves through Raveloe as the presumed heir to the Red House, courting Nancy Lammeter while hiding a wife and child he cannot acknowledge. His fatal flaw is the habit of deferral—he hopes time will solve what only
- [Nancy Lammeter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/silas_marner_se/characters/nancy_lammeter.md): Nancy rides to the Squire's party on a pillion behind her father, bewitching in drab, and carries herself with the quiet authority of a woman who knows her own worth. She loves Godfrey but will not bend her moral code—ev
- [Eppie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/silas_marner_se/characters/eppie.md): Eppie knows no home but the stone-pit cottage, where she calls Silas father and dreams chiefly of a garden. Her warmth draws the weaver back into Raveloe's human web, and her unpretentious joy stands in quiet rebuke to t
- [Dunstan Cass](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/silas_marner_se/characters/dunstan_cass.md): Dunsey lives by his wits and his brother's secrets, enjoying the self-important swagger of a man who believes himself lucky. He holds Godfrey's hidden marriage over him like a lever, and his casual cruelty—toward the hor
- [Dolly Winthrop](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/silas_marner_se/characters/dolly_winthrop.md): Dolly embodies Raveloe's best self: unlettered but deeply decent, she treats the weaver's strange household with patience rather than suspicion. She teaches Silas to dress and christen the child, offering the rituals of 
- [Mr. Macey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/silas_marner_se/characters/mr_macey.md): Mr. Macey has spent a lifetime in the clerk's desk, and his opinions carry the weight of custom in Raveloe. He buttonholes Silas Marner with blunt neighbourly advice — buy a Sunday suit, come to church, be a bit neighbou
- [Aaron Winthrop](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/silas_marner_se/characters/aaron_winthrop.md): Aaron grows up in the Winthrop household, where his mother's patient charity shapes his character and draws him naturally toward Silas Marner's cottage. He is unassuming and practical, the opposite of the Cass brothers' 
- [Priscilla Lammeter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/silas_marner_se/characters/priscilla_lammeter.md): Priscilla runs the Warrens and her rheumatic father with the same firm hand, cheerfully declaring that a man should let somebody else do the ordering and keep the blaming in his own hands. She is sharp-tongued, unromanti
- [Squire Cass](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/silas_marner_se/characters/squire_cass.md): Squire Cass presides over the Red House with a blustering authority that masks how little he actually governs — his sons run up debts, his household drifts, and his temper substitutes for discipline. He is proud of his p
- [Molly Farren](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/silas_marner_se/characters/molly_farren.md): Molly Farren lives on the margins of Raveloe society, bound to Godfrey by a marriage he bitterly regrets and cannot acknowledge. Her addiction and poverty make her both pitiable and dangerous to his prospects, and her de
- [Ben Winthrop](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/silas_marner_se/characters/ben_winthrop.md): Dolly's husband and a wheelwright in Raveloe.
- [William Dane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/silas_marner_se/characters/william_dane.md): Silas's former friend in Lantern Yard who betrays him.
- [Jem Rodney](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/silas_marner_se/characters/jem_rodney.md): A poacher initially suspected of stealing Silas's gold.
- [Mr. Lammeter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/silas_marner_se/characters/mr_lammeter.md): Father of Nancy and Priscilla, a proud landowner.
- [Bryce](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/silas_marner_se/characters/bryce.md): A horse dealer involved in Dunstan's sale of Godfrey's horse.
- [Mrs. Osgood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/silas_marner_se/characters/mrs_osgood.md): A relative of the Lammeter sisters who appears at social gatherings.
- [Mr. Snell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/silas_marner_se/characters/mr_snell.md): The landlord of the Rainbow tavern in Raveloe.
- [Dowlas](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/silas_marner_se/characters/dowlas.md): A farrier and frequent debater at the Rainbow.
- [Sally Oates](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/silas_marner_se/characters/sally_oates.md): A villager who seeks Silas's herbal remedies.
- [Mr. Kimble](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/silas_marner_se/characters/mr_kimble.md): The local doctor and apothecary, related to the Casses.

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