I went with him to the Riverside Dance Palace. He says he would put me in films. He says I had natural talent. As soon as he got back to Hollywood, he would write to me about it. […] “I never received that letter,” he said. “I always thought my old lady stole it from me. I ask her if she stole it and she says no. So I married Curley. (88)From this the readers see that he had a chance to live a better life than he has now. He could have lived his dream and been a movie star, but instead he had to settle for Curley. She has a complex past that has allowed her to build walls around her past and helps transform her character into a complex and interesting person: much more so than at the beginning of the book. Readers seem to forget one thing about Curley's wife: she is a human being too. Just like the other characters, he has feelings and needs as indicated in further analysis