Silas Manner Silas Manner is about a tortured and lonely mans redemption through another man's failure. Silas Manner by George Eliot is a comment on the life of an English weaver and the social interactions of English county folk .The first thing that Eliot shows is how one man Godfrey Cass's failure as a human saves Silas Manner form a life alone with no one but his money to comfort him. Elliot also shows how Godfrey fails as a father . And finally Eliot shows the opinions and practices of English villagers. Godfrey Cass's too terrible mistakes-marrying Molly and rejecting his child -bringing great sorrow to Godfrey and the whole Cass family, but these very sam