She takes a shot here, in chapter 8, at aging actresses who become acting gurus, and the nonsense they peddle as if it were hard won wisdom and craft.
> In Poland, you were allowed some practice of the arts of self-indulgence, but you
> were expected to be sincere and also to have high ideals—people respected you for
> that. In America, you were expected to exhibit the confusions of inner vehemence, to
> express opinions no one need take seriously, and have eccentric foibles and
> extravagant needs, which exhibited the force of your will, your appetitiveness, the
> spread of your self-regard—all excellent things.
> ...happiness is destined to become American, with an American standard of what it is
> to be happy.
Let's be honest, it is hard to swim upstream against this.