ng with a mistress in New York (Economist 104). He may have realized what made his wife so special in the same way that The Little Prince did. Antoine most likely found most adults to be foolish in most of the things that they did, just as The Little Prince did on his journeys. The experiences of The Prince may have represented the experiences that Antoine had with many adults in his lifetime. The Little Prince visited many planets on his journeys, but a foolish adult inhabited almost every planet that he visited. For example, The Little Prince visited a planet inhabited by a man who owned all of the stars. When The Prince asked him what he did with the stars the man replied that he simply owned them (55). After many attempts at trying to find out what good it would do to own the stars if the man did not do anything with them, The Prince came to the conclusion that the man was very peculiar. On one planet he found a lamp lighter who lit a lamp and then put it back out every few seconds simply because it was his job. The Little Prince thought that that job was noble because the lamp lighter lit the lamp for a good reason, yet fruitless and tireless. This could represent the views that Antoine had about all of the different occupations in the world. He may have found the work of laborers to be noble but fruitless because the work never stops, and the work of most others such as lawyers and landowners to be foolish and pointless.The Little Prince suggests that Antoine may have in fact wanted to die to escape this world. In The Little Prince, The Prince had a snake bite him so that he would die and could then go back to his planet. Said the snake, I can carry you farther than any ship could take you (72). This may symbolize Antoines want to die and go to heaven, where he may feel at home. The Princes getting home by means of death somewhat parallels the death that Antoine faced upon the crash of his plane (Current 393). Anto...
