... 97). The Saturday Review also noticed her use of characterization, which I believe to be one of her greatest strong points in Silas Marner. The Review says " There is nothing in which George Eliot succeeds more conspicuously than in the very nice art of making her characters like real people, and yet shading them off into the large group which she is describing- (Harris 96). George Eliot ... of human nature. Although she came from a well off family, she was able to portray the poor so well in Silas Marner, which is said to be as good "as Adam Bede only shorter- (Harris 99). The Saturday...

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