Silas Marner was a man of stable finances. When in Chapter
I we find out that he had once been engaged to be married, we also see that he and his
promised Sarah had been saving money together to establish a home. He obviously was no
spendthrift if that was the case, and he also seems like a man who needs very little (at
the beginning of the story) to be bothered with financial
troubles.
After he established his weaving work at Raveloe,
we know that he was paid beforehand and many times he was paid in gold, like in the case
of Mrs. Osgood's table-linen. In fact, earlier in the story when he cures Sally from the
dropsy and heart-failure illness that she was feeling he rejected the many instances
where people from town would offer him as much as pieces of silver to get a cure for a
loved one.
Hence, we can declare that Silas Marner is at
first introduced to us as a man who has enough money and little need. He also has the
capacity of making as much money as he wants and it seems that he will surely put that
ability into practice soon.
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