HOW SUCCESS CAN BE ABSOLUTE

In this case, achieving the American dream implies reaching some threshold of well-being, higher than where one began but not necessarily dazzling. As Bruce Springsteen put it, " I don't think the American dream was that everybody was going to make... a billion dollars, but it was that everybody was going to have an opportunity and the chance to live life with some decency and some dignity and a chance for some self-respect.