Silas Marner Critical Response Essay Did Eliot emphasize more on how characters react to the events than the events themselves? Was her goal to focus on the responses of characters and what they think rather than the occurrences themselves? As stated by Lord David Cecil, “Eliot places much more emphasis on how characters react to events than events themselves. While we learn the facts of his [Silas] life after he adopts Eppie- we learn much …showed first 75 words of 744 total…

…showed last 75 words of 744 total…her goal which was to place much more emphasis on how the characters react and respond to events than the events just themselves. I have come to the decision that I do agree with what she has done. Silas’s reaction to his guineas disappearing, Godfrey thinking deeply about his confession, Silas running out the door the minute he doesn’t see Eppie are all examples that support what I believe is to be true.