Sumner F Period discussion

This quote comes from chapter 1 of book two, stating “I have your best interests at heart when I tell you not to take a step you'll spend your days regretting. It's not as if your father could help you. Things have been hard for him lately and he's an old man. You'd be dependent absolutely on a dreamer, a nice, well-born boy, but a dreamer—merely clever.” This quote is Beatrice talking to Amory telling him not to go too fast in life or he will face regrets. When you are young and dumb, you tend to make irrational decisions that will affect your life in the future and Beatrice is trying to warn him of that. She is also telling him not to be a dreamer of what his life could have been like with his father, because it is a useless tactic that only brings on the question “What if?” I believe that Beatrice is very wise at what she is saying and I like this quote because I tend to want to regret and think of the question, “What if?” and it causes me to realize that it is a mistake. An outside source that I would compare it to would probably be, from the movie, “Sleeping with the Enemy.” Laura is a sweet young girl and meets a decently attractive, but rich man. Ignoring his morals, Laura goes ahead and marries him, not realizing that he is an abusive man. This correlates because Laura was a young girl, that made a bad decision on marrying a guy for money, just as Beatrice warns her son not to do what she did.