The book "Silas Marner" opens in the English countryside where it was common to sometimes come across weavers, who were pale, thin men who looked like "the remnants of a disinherited race". The people viewed all types of skill and cleverness as suspicious. So, the weavers developed eccentric habits that resulted from loneliness. Silas Marner, a linen-weaver lived in a stone cottage in the village of Raveloe. The boys of the village would go and look through his window. Silas would usually scare them away by glaring at them.. The boys' parents said that Silas had the ability to cure rheumatism by the power of the devil. In the fifteen years Silas had lived in Raveloe, he had not invited any guests into his home, or made any effort to befriend other villagers. One of the townspeople swears he once saw Silas in a sort of fit, standing with his limbs stiff and his eyes "set like a dead man's." Mr. Macey, the parish clerk, suggested that Silas's soul was leaving his body to go with the devil.…
