The idea of the American Dream is a central theme in many works, including "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story of the American Dream in a novel, Fitzgerald dissects it through his kaleidoscope; how wealth and status molds lives while holding hopes for happiness hostage. It is, as Matthew J. Bruccoli described it at the time of its publication among a series of new editions in 1992, ''a sonorous echo-by hearers and readers through the last six or seven decades-of Desolation Row,'' - the real version getting mixed with Fitzgerald's portrait (mostly derogatory even when ostensibly admiring) to give about a sixth-generation muddy print by an indifferent artist wearing…