Envy. Which of them needs the help the most?

Tommy's suffering revolves around the fact that he is not receiving any help at all. I cannot understand how he is able to live and surround himself from things that not only don't help him, but affect him in a negative way. First of all, there is his father. Dr. Alder isnt willing to give him a chance. He wants his son to be better, to be like him, but he doesnt want to help him. To me, it would be like if you don't know how to swim and you are thrown into the pool by a random guy. You are drowning and this random guy then tells you that you have to swim to survive, but he wont tell you how to swim. What are you supposed to do? What is Tommy supposed to do?

Margaret isn't helping him either. She doesn't want to divorce, so that Tommy wont be able to marry the women he loves. Honestly, this kind of envy is one of the worst things I've seen, and probably the thing I despise the most in my life. She probably thinks, "Well, If I cannot be benefited from this, then why should anyone?"

This reminds me of a cousin of mine. A little girl, that acted the same way the other day because of an ice cream. The story was the following: She was sick the previous day, and her brother got to eat an ice cream and she didn't. The next day, she cried and cried because both of them were getting an ice cream. She believed that he shouldn't be allowed to have one, because he'd already had one the day she was sick.

The reason why I despise this kind of selfishness is because you technically have the option to help the other one (In my cousin's case, she could allow him to have one.) but you don't, because you wouldn't bare to see others doing better than you. This is a very infantile behavior, and this makes me hate Dr. Alder and his ideas.

If I was Tommy, I'd seek for help wherever I could get one, and I would also isolate myself from all the people that could harm me. I am left with a final question. Which of them needs the help the most? Which of them is less successful? Not everything in life is about money, or power. Values are more important. Or at least were. back in the days...