the ant and the grashoper

 It's the same message. even the Tom got rich in the end, but i don't think that Maugham was trying to told us that the money is the only way to judgement people's life succeeful or fall. or the life shold as hard as George pay all in work, it may just like overload to life. life should be blance between live to work or work to live! because the life is too much drama.