چکیده (انگلیسی):

The paper is about the theory of the American dream that can be observed through
several characters: Jay Gatsby, George Wilson and Myrtle Wilson. Jay Gatsby
illustrates the very essence of the American dream according to which an individual
can succeed in society regardless of his own origin and history. In the world of
cheap, consumable ideals, rapaciousness and hypocrisy, Gatsby is a dreamer, idealist,
carried by illusions, he appears to be grotesque and absurd surrounded by greedy
people. In a symbolic sense, Gatsby shows Fitzgerald's consciousness of the
irreconcilability of money and beauty, ideal goals and corrupted methods, dreams
about personal happiness and the awareness of their fragility. Money is for
Fitzgerald the source of immense physical beauty, on the one hand, and evil, on the
other, so the two can not exist without being mutually dependent. The story about
the incurable idealist and impostor Gatsby who created and bolstered the myth
about his origin himself, becomes in this way a parable about the unhappy ending of
the great American dream.