In terms of the plot structure, where would you place this event in Silas Marner? Godfrey and Nancy agree not to make it public that Eppie is Godfrey's daughter. exposition complication climax resolution

resolution

Explanation:

The most well-known and used plot structure is that which begins by exposing a situation, citing characters, time and space. In its development the facts are narrated, beginning with the complication and ending with the climax of the story. Finally, after the climax, the plot comes to the conclusion where the resolution of the story is presented.

Regarding your question, as Godfrey and Nancy came to a conclusion about not revealing Eppie's fatherhood, we can conclude that this part of the story is part of the plot's resolution.

Godfrey, having returned from his walk, tells Nancy some truly shocking news: Dunstan's remains have been found at the bottom of the drained stone-pits. With Dunstan's body, Marner's gold has been recovered. Godfrey also makes another painful revelation. He finally tells Nancy that the woman found dead in the snow outside of Marner's cottage sixteen years before was his own wife, and that Eppie is his biological child. Nancy hears this news with surprising calmness. She tells Godfrey that if he had only worked up the courage to tell her this news six years ago, when he was so eager to adopt Eppie, she would have supported him wholeheartedly. Better yet, she could have married him knowing that Godfrey had a daughter, and she could have raised Eppie as her own child. Thus Godfrey finally feels the full weight of his error. In failing to trust his wife, not only did he live without Eppie, he lived without ever knowing the woman he married.