In Silas Marner by George Eliot, she wrote of Silas Marner's different changes of love. In the beginning of the book, he focused his love on the lady who had captured his heart but then it turned to money. As the story ends, he found true love in his daughter Eppie. She greatly displayed how love can change from greed to the true, eternal love. When living in Lantern Yard, Silas's attachment to the community and belief in the church made him an average guy who everyone liked. At this time in his life, he had "another attachment of a closer kind", his love for Sarah. He was going to marry