The Little Prince
Characters in The Little Prince
8 characters, main characters first.Main characters
The Pilot (The Little Prince)
The unnamed aviator-narrator, stranded in the Sahara Desert after an engine failure, who befriends the little prince and relays his story.
The Little Prince (The Little Prince)
A boy from the tiny asteroid B-612 who leaves his home, his rose, and travels from planet to planet before arriving on Earth, where he questions the strange priorities of the adults he meets.
Supporting characters
The Fox (The Little Prince)
A fox the prince tames on Earth; he teaches the prince that "it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye," and that taming something makes you responsible for it forever.
The Rose (The Little Prince)
The prince's proud, coquettish rose, left behind on his home asteroid; her vanity and inability to express her love drive him to leave, though he later realizes his devotion to her makes her irreplaceable.
The King (The Little Prince)
The first grown-up the prince visits: a lonely monarch on an otherwise empty planet who claims dominion over the stars and insists everyone obey him, though he has no real subjects.
The Businessman (The Little Prince)
A grown-up so absorbed in counting the stars he claims to own that he never looks up to actually see them, and has no time to greet his visitor.
The Lamplighter (The Little Prince)
A man on a tiny, fast-spinning planet who lights and extinguishes his single streetlamp every minute, obeying an outdated order the prince comes to admire as the one selfless task among the grown-ups.
The Snake (The Little Prince)
A snake the prince meets soon after landing in the desert, who speaks in riddles and tells him he has the power to send anyone back to where they came from.