1、Gemmy VS The Society
　　The situation at that time has played a vital role in Gemmy’s life building. Unlike other countries, Australia is a country of immigrants. In history, before the European colonists’ coming, there were a lot of aborigines living Australia mainland. Since Gemmy was just live with aborigines but not born in an aboriginal family, it’s simple to find out that the two different societies have yielded subtle influences on him. The white society, his true community gave him white skin while the aboriginal society left aboriginal behavior and dress for him. Due to the mockery and exclusion at that time, the social value was that the aborigines could not survive together with the settlers, which was the real reason leading to the death of Gemmy.
　　2、Gemmy VS The People
　　The McIvors kindly gave a shelter to Gemmy for a new life and at least made Gemmy warm and moved. It was at that time, they had some problems in getting along well with their neighbors, who could not understand why the McIvor did this dangerous and dreadful thing.
　　Mr. Frazer was a seeming powerful minister of the settlement. He owned progressive views towards new things—to accept, to love this land and all the things existing here. That was the belief which decided Frazer’s attitude towards Gemmy. To Frazer, Gemmy was the new blood to the settlement, and he was willing to accept Gemmy.
　　 George Abbot, worked as a teacher, was very strict to his students. Since he was well-educated, he felt superior to other people, not to mention Gemmy. At the beginning of the novel, George and Gemmy didn’t confront with each other. It was just this kind of speechlessness that let the readers feel George’s indifference towards Gemmy.
　　Unlike other settlers, they treated Gemmy as a friend rather than an enemy. It showed, on one hand, they were very friendly, on the other hand, their tolerant attitudes towards the aborigines and aliens. Mrs. Hutchence and Leona were the new blood for the old settler’s life.
　　3、Gemmy VS Himself
　　While he started to remember a few facts, he was also eager to build up a relationship with the settlers. Those tormentors showed ambiguity to Gemmy because as a white man, who lived in aboriginal culture, alienated him from other settlers. Gemmy lost his unique white features and suffered ups and downs during his searching for a new life. Gemmy doubted his identity and began to think about himself. He was an “In-between creature”, the symbolic of combination of the aboriginal and settler’s cultures. On the way to his imaginary life, Gemmy lost himself, and finally, collapsed.
4、Gemmy VS The Nature
　　After so many troubles with society, people and himself, Gemmy began to realize that he was belonging to neither of the two cultures but the nature. Actually, he fell in love with nature because nature would not disappoint and disregard him. This description of nature disclosed the results of Gemmy—he felt burnt out. The society was so large but there was no place for him. Natural description serves for portrayal. Since Gemmy had lived with aborigines and he knew how to live with nature, he thought that living with the new neighbors was a very tough work for him. Noticing the difficulty and hatred he had never felt at home and begin to miss his old friends-- the aborigines, he decided to go back to the wilderness.
　　Existentialists think alienation is born with human. However, it has different forms in different historical stages and social contexts. At that time, most settlers were very afraid the aborigines, who often related to savage. As a special person, during the way of self-request, Gemmy became the victim of civilized and uncivilized cultures.
　　Bibliography:
　　[1] Karin Devaney Askeland. ‘David Malouf’s Remembering Babylon and An Imaginary Life: Identity Processes in the Postcolonial Borderland’. Department of Foreign Languages. May 2008.
　　[2] David Malouf 1994. Remerbering Babylon. Vintage. Sydney.