The Ant and the Grasshopper

Do you think the message in Maugham's story is the same as or different from the message in the Aesop fable of the ant and the grasshopper?


         In the Aesop fable of the ant and the grasshopper described that the ant succeed to spend great time in winter because the ant was hard-working, and the grasshopper who just took the rest in summar at all did not have food in winter. However, Maugham's story explained that Tom who was like the grasshopper and an attractive person had a chance to live a great life even though he was lazy and spent a lot of money. On the other hand, George was a serious person, and he respected others. Moreover, he saved the money like the ant, but he could not be happy in the end of the story because Tom had a marriage with an old women, and he received all of her money after the old woman died. In my opinion, the message in Muagham's story is different from the message in the Aesop fable of the ant and the grasshopper because the Aesop's fable and Muagham's story had a different result, and I realized that people who enjoyed their lives when they were young could be more successful than other people who concentrate to only work in the future.