In the first 15 years of Ravelo, the only companion that Silas has is with his money. Silas earned his money by walking into town and silently making trades with his neighbors that he did not know. Silas’s “steps never wandered to the hedge-bank and the lane-side in search of once familiar herbs: these too belonged to the past” (16). Silas tries to forget about the “once familiar herbs” because as tasteful and sweet they can be the herbs can be bitter and tart. The bitter herbs started to grow through backstabs and betrayals of friends and his betrothed. By “never wandering to the hedge-bank” the bitter herbs are never touched. Silas keeps himself extremely busy so he does not have time to wander. While Silas is never wandering he tries to exterminate the not satisfying herbs. Silas keeps himself so far from the “hedge-bank and the lane side” that beautiful flowers that grow beside the herbs are …show more content…
When Silas is basking in his gold his life shrinks away. “His life had shrunken away, like a rivulet that has sunk far down from the grassy fringe of its old breath into a little shivering thread, that cuts a groove for itself in the barren Sand”(16). Silas’s life has backed away from reality and created a word of its own. This world that centered God now has centered work. This new world blocks out his past. This creates Silas’s new world barren and like a desert where all you can see is sand for