American Dream

We have read multiple texts trying not exactly to find the answer to,'What is the American Dream?', but to pursue in the idea of what it is. Text after text I've had many ideas of what the 'American Dream' was but after my classmates said their ideas and after reading different texts, I always had a new idea of it. From race to race and class to money to fitting in. Now my idea of the 'American Dream' is that we feel if we work hard we will eventually get what we wanted to achieve but just one little thing can bring us down or our hard work isn't enough. I've researched articles instead of listing my evidence from the texts. And I've found a few articles all stating the fact that more than 50% Americans do not believe the 'American Dream' does exist or it never did. 'Is the American Dream dead?' also states that 59pc of Americans believe the 'American Dream' is impossible to achieve and two-thirds of respondents don't believe children would be better off than their parents generation. Is this where we came to? The fact that we work hard but for some reason doesn't pay off and many Americans know it and lose hope in their generation and the next generation.