# Molly Farren — Silas Marner character guide

> Molly Farren in Silas Marner by George Eliot.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Molly

**First appearance:** 0013-part-i-xii

## Snapshot

Godfrey Cass's secret wife, a desperate opium addict from a rougher world, whose existence threatens everything his respectable Raveloe life depends on hiding.

## Who they are

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 determination to force him into the open drives her toward the village on a bitter winter night. She is the buried truth beneath the Cass family's respectability — the human cost of Godfrey's weakness and the reason a child will soon arrive at Silas Marner's hearth.

## In the story

### [Chapter I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/silas_marner_se/chapters/part-i-i)

Not directly mentioned in this chapter; no relevant appearance.

### [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/silas_marner_se/chapters/part-i-xii)

Godfrey's secret wife, an opium addict, who dies in the snow while attempting to expose her marriage at the Red House.

### [Chapter XVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/silas_marner_se/chapters/part-ii-xviii)

Molly is identified as the woman found dead in the snow and Godfrey's secret wife, Eppie's mother.

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