the
original version of "the ant and the grasshopper" by Aesop is
different from Maugham story because in the original the ant doesn't help the
grasshopper, but instead the ant focused in working hard collecting food in
order to be prepared for the winter. In the end the grasshopper wasn't prepared
for the winter and it was with other option but to beg the ant for food. Meanwhile
in Maugham story the ant (George) never stopped helping the grasshopper (tom) despite
how idle and disrespected tom was by everybody. Tom was always
having the nice life at Spence of his brother's hard work. In the end
after all those sacrifices made by George, his actions weren't rewarded. Instead
tom was the one who end it up winning because he got marry to a rich woman who
died leaving all her fortune to tom. This fable shows how in some cases
the hard work of a person is necessarily rewarded in our society.
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