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? Explain

             Its obvious that the message on the story by Maugham is different from Aesop fable. The Aesop fable leads to what more commonly would happen if you act like a grasshopper(lazy, ignorant and idle) homeless and unhappy. Maugham story gives you a different and rarely common situation that you might possibly see this situation in resent days, with is acting like a grasshopper might bring you the opportunity to find some one wealthy that wouldn't mind sharing their belongings with you. At the end it seems that it doesn't matter what you do in life, because you might get lucky and end up with a good life. 

“As It Was in the Beginning” p.35, Question #2

What ended her new happiness? As most of us know Esther old happiness was reuniting her self with her red skin family but once she met Laurence everything change. Laurence who was Father Paul nephew grew up with Esther as best mate. Esther started falling in love at the same time Laurence also was falling in love with her. They both grew up old enough to get marry but that was when Esther happiness started to collapse. Laurence decide to tell his uncle that he wants to marry Esther and Father Paul responded “ Laurence, my boy, your future is the dearest thing to me for all earthly interest. Why, you can’t marry this girl-no, no sit, sit until I have finished.” Also he wanted Laurence to marry the Hudson’s Bay factor’s Daughter, who was white. Father kept explaining to Laurence how he couldn’t marry a Redskin girl, who mother is hopelessly uncivilized and father who has a “dash of French” and mainly Esther was half-breed. Esther was already feeling like all her happiness would collapse on her, because Father Paul got to the point and brain washes his nephews brain by convincing him that he should marry the Hudson’s Bay factor’s Daughter. So to finally over kill her happiness Esther decide to kill Laurence with small flint arrow-head that had some snake venom on it, she scratched his wrist like a snake bike with the arrow head. That’s how Esther family happiness ended by Father Paul Discrimination.