Elia Kazan’s Greek-American family fled the Ottoman slaughters in Asia Minor by seeking refuge in America. He admitted “marrying America”. His novels keep playing with the American Dream, a tantalizing utopia, a dream realized, corrupted and forsaken, then reborn even if under an inverted shape, in Anatolia. His alter ego and anti-hero in his novels, Gatsby’s reembodiment, dwells in paradox and intersects Kazan’s autobiography. He serves and betrays his dream and is betrayed by it.