"I don't dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living." These words of Steven Spielberg
             echo the idea of the American Dream, where virtues of hard work and ambition can take one anywhere.
             Generically defined, the American Dream means someone starting low on the economic or social gamut
             working really hard to turn prosperous or famous. Although such rags-to-riches stories take root in the
             deepest parts of many of our hearts, we must use reason to realize the inherent illogic behind the American
             Dream. How many of us can't dream? How many of us don't have an ambition? And how many of us don't
             work hard? Are we ALL who we want to be right now? No! While chivalrous and quixotic, the pursuers of
             the Dream usually fail to take into account other factors of society as well as reality that will eventually foil
             their wishes. That last statement will be considered heretical by many, but there are those who agree;
             Francis Scott Fitzgerald would be one. In his book, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald touches upon the lower
             parts of the social spectrum, where most of the Dream lives on. During the discussion of the lower classes,
             Fitzgerald connects them ultimately with failure, telling us morbid tales of the "American Nightmare". In
             The Great Gatsby, Francis Scott Fitzgerald uses the lower class characters and their failures to prove that
             the conceptual American Dream is a belief that doesn't truly function.
             Fitzgerald uses the character of Jay Gatsby to show the overworking of the American Dream,
             leading to its failure. Jay Gatsby is the epitome of the American Dream pursuer, yet the ideal American
             Dream doesn't work in his case because his ambition is too great, thus overworking the Dream. The
             American Dream requires one to have a goal, yet goals tend to be too ambitious, as is in Gatsby's case, in
             which he wants to achieve something th...