Some critics have compared it to Richard Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull, while others say it is a novel about environmental consciousness. You yourself once said that it was actually written based on certain stage of your own life.
有評論者將此歸諸類似西方作家李察巴哈（Richard Bach）的《天地一沙鷗》，也有人認為這是一本環境意識小說；而您曾經表示，其實寫得是自己的某一階段。