We're all familiar with the now stereotypical concept of the American "self-made man": an independant go-getter, yet solitary, often detached, isolated, and alone. He's been made famous in film and television, as well as portrayed in American literature across multiple genres. He is a modern day Atlas, bearing the solitary weight of his own personal world on his shoulders. This is a man that prides himself on that which he has built with his own two hands. He has pulled