How Does Sanctuary Line Relate To The Great Gatsby

Comparison essay on the book The Great Gatsby & Sanctuary line By: Ling Tao Shi

Although F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, was written in 1925, the content can be compared to Jane Urquhart’s novel, Sanctuary line, which written almost a century later. Both Fitzgerald and Urquhart are urging the reader to consider living in the past just leads you to tragedy, and the author’s addresses this theme through the use of different symbols, and characters.

Gatsby lived in the past where when Daisy was with him. Nick said, "Almost five years! There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams ---not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion".

But in reality, Daisy is not immaculate, like Gatsby thought she was in the past. Gatsby is lived in the past, he forget his presence and future. Due to that he believes his past can be his future. In the book, after Gatsby’s death, his father showed Nick about a schedule plan that Gatsby had when he was a teen. But after he meets Daisy, it seems that he give up all his goals that he had before. The only dream he had now is to live with her, but his dreams just out of reach. As the matter of fact, he limits his future. Also, In The Great Gatsby, green light is an important symbol throughout the whole story, Gatsby's life is always been closely linked to the green light. Not only because the direction of the green light is where daisy lives, it is Gatsby's dream, but he can never reach it. Beginning in the story, Nick sees Gatsby desperate to try to catch the green light from miles away. During the middle of the story, we know that the green light is the symbol of love, the incarnation of Daisy. Gatsby

Liz Crane is main character of the book, she moved into the deserted farmhouse once belonged to her uncle. Live there alone, looking at her deteriorating land, she reflects her family and how her ancestors lives. The mood of story is sad, because her best cousin Mandy recently killed in Afghanistan during a mission, also her uncle, who rise her up from her childhood. That is why that Liz go back to her uncle's farmhouse, not only because she want to remember the time she spent with her cousin Mandy, the river where she and her uncle use to play, she want to go back in to the past which are only exist in her memories. In Sanctuary line, monarch butterflies are an important symbol. As a child, Liz identifies monarch butterflies and Mexican laborers both come in spring every year. As an adult, she become as an entomologist that do research on Monarch butterflies. She studied the changes in the hard-won species, mating habits, migration and rapid exhaustion of succeeding generations. She is thinking characteristic of the monarch butterflies – it has a short, harsh but fine life. Which symbolize her dream. Because beautiful thing only last a short amount of time, that is why she could not forget the past and accept the fact that her cousin and uncle is dead. Which lead her