Silas Marner: Characters in the Novel In the novel Silas Marner there are many negative occurrences that take place. Three of the characters that are involved are, Molly, Duston, and Godfrey. These characters are not all the stereotypical people that would do negative things. Molly was a girl who was addicted to opium. She was secretly married to Godfrey. Godfrey would give her money and instead of using it on their child she would use that money to buy more drugs. Molly died as a result of her addiction to drugs. Dunston was another character in this book that was not a class citizen. Dunstun committed the second robbery. He was als