"I tell you I ain't used to livin' like this. I coulda made somethin' of myself." She said darkly, "Maybe I will yet." And then her words tumbled out in a passion of communication, as though she hurried before her listener could be taken away. "I lived right in Salinas," she said. "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."
^You can talk about this as showing the first sign of depression, that Curley’s wife had her dream just like everyone else, but she never gets her dream to come true which foreshadows (hints in advance) that George and Lennie’s dream won’t come true either. You can see through how she “hurried before her listener” that due to the American dream being dead it caused loneliness and just made people long for a feeling of belonging.