Study Guide

The Little Prince Characters

By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The little prince is a wisp of a boy with curly golden hair and a laugh that sounds like a...

When you read this book, were you surprised to find out that it was narrated by an adult? We...

Although he only has a cameo role, the fox is a super-duper important character in this book. He...

The prince’s love for his flower causes him much pain and heartbreak. Let’s try to...

Is it possible to come across any snake in literature and not think of that snake? You know, the...

After he leaves his own planet, the little prince first lands up on the planet of the king. The...

The second planet the prince visits is inhabited by this character. Both allegorically and...

“Tippler” means “drunkard,” and he inhabits the third planet that the...

The businessman inhabits the fourth planet the prince visits. Like the king, he thinks he has...

Of all the people the prince meets—before the fox and the narrator, that is—the...

Here’s another grown-up who’s rather full of himself and obsessed with “matters...

The prince meets this guy as he’s wandering around on Earth. While the switchman has a tiny...

The merchant sells things that are supposed to be efficient. In particular, he sells a pill that...