Nickled and dimed

The book Nickled and dimed starts of with the explaining her purpose and it was if she could live in america as a middle class citizen of the U.S. In my opinion, she wants to fail only to prove her point. I think even by reading the first pages that she is setting her self to fail. An american can live well in a middle class life. But she makes it seem so nagative. Perhaps the middle class does have problems but it depends on their situation.