"I tell you I ain't used to livin' like this. I coulda made somethin' of myself." She said darkly, "Maybe I will yet."(page 52). Curley's wife has a dream that although different in detail from the other's dreams, is still very similar in its general desires. She dreams of being a movie star. "Come there when I was a kid. Well, a show come through, an' I met one of the actors. He says I could go with that show. But my ol' lady wouldn' let me. She says because I was on'y fifteen. But the guy says I coulda. If I'd went, I wouldn't be livin' like this, you bet." (page 53-54). Making it big in Hollywood may have been a fairly new American Dream. She wanted to be an actress in Hollywood. She imagines how great it would be to stay in nice hotels, own lots of beautiful clothes, and have people want to take her photograph. but her husband is the one stopping her from achieving her