Godfrey Cass believes that he can use his wealth to buy happiness in place of love that he has neglected to give. In the novel, he has a daughter named Eppie whom he disowns for eighteen years. After eighteen years, Godfrey wants her back to fill a hole in his life and make

The lives of Silas Marner and Godfrey Cass illustrate how wealth or objects will not lead you to happiness, but that love will. Both men were on a search, but one of them got lost.

Silas Marner was once incomplete and unhappy also when he was "cut off from faith and love," (602) and lived only to collect a hoard of gold. He shut out the rest of the world and any love he had for anything with it. "His life had reduced itself to the functions of weaving and hoarding" (602). In this life with only gold, and without love, Silas was an unhappy and lonely man. Later in his life when he is happy, he recalls counting his gold every night and "how his soul was utterly desolate"(710). He remains in this bleak position for fifteen years until his gold is lost and replaced with something to

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