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

I think the message in Maugham's story is different from the passage in the Aesop's fable of the ant and the grasshopper. In the ant and the grasshopper, the moral is to save for the future and you won't be without. But opposite in Maugham's story. Tom is like the grasshopper, but he gets every thing through married an old women. George is really working hard like the ant, but he gets less. He fails to predict Tom will be end of gutter. This makes him very jealous.