A Comparison of Silas Marner and Godfrey Cass Godfrey Cass and Silas Marner are perfect foils. They each developed along similar lines but each differed at certain points. Both were affected by Eppie but Silas was the one who benefitted the most from it. Eppie’s interaction with both also shaped the way they love each’s closest people. Godfrey and Silas were both self imposed loners. Godfrey had a to keep his first wife …showed first 75 words of 791 total…

…showed last 75 words of 791 total…raise her. Many times he had commented on how he must be the only she knows as a father and no one else. In conclusion, Godfrey Cass and Silas Marner shared many charcter traits becuase of Eppie. They both changed dramtically as Eppie grew older. Their personal ives came more to the front also. Each took special (or least what Godfrey believed) care of Eppie. By doing SIlas ad Godfrey revealed intersting part of themselves.