from the back cover: In a hole under the floorboards Silas Marner the linen-weaver keeps his gold. Every day he works hard at his weaving, and every night he takes the gold out and holds the bright coins lovingly, feeling them and counting them again and again. The villagers are afraid of him and he has no family, no friends. Only the gold is his friend, his delight, his reason for living. …
Maggie Tulliver lines in the tradisional bound society of St. Ogg's. She can neither adapt herself to it nor live happily in Her daring, rebellious nature wants freedom, and her act of cutting off her hair is symbolic of this nature. But her great desire