Answer:
The cottager and his wife and miser are similar in that they give gold too much importance.
Explanation:
The cottager and his wife and miser are people who let gold control their feelings, giving a value that gold does not deserve. The cottager and his wife, made gold their source of greed by sacrificing things that were more important than him, like the chicken. The miser, on the other hand, gave importance to obsolete gold, which would not be used and only served to inflate the miser's ego.
Aesop, uses these two fables to pass a great moral lesson. In "The Hen and the Golden Eggs" he shows that whoever wants everything is left with nothing and that greed makes people devalue the true wealth they have. "The Miser," on the other hand, presents the lesson that the value of things is defined by their usefulness, if a valuable thing like gold is not used and becomes obsolete, it makes it as valuable as a stone. In addition, history shows that being stingy allows a person not to enjoy its own riches, leaving them to other people.
