The main problem in The Little Princeis that the Little Prince has to learn how to love his difficult, prickly rose.
On his tiny asteroid, he cares for his beloved rose, who is troublesome, vain, and demanding. She insists on being screened by being kept under a dome. She tells him untruths. Finally, he leaves his little asteroid and ends up on earth because of his disagreements with his rose, who he thinks takes advantage of him. He learns, as he later confides to the pilot, that he should have put more confidence in her actions than her words. They do reconcile before he leaves, and the rose tells the Prince she loves him.
As he travels, the Prince meets the adult world and sorts out what is important and what is unimportant from his encounters with various adults, many of whom are more concerned with counting and...
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owning things than relationships. Later, the Prince is shocked when he sees a whole group of roses and realizes his rose is not the only one in the universe. He learns, however, from the fox he meets that the rose's lack of uniqueness is not important: what is important is the time he has spent with his particular rose and the relationship that develops as a result of loving the one you are with. The fox wants the Prince to tame him so that he can be in relationship with the Prince; the fox also tells him that the Prince has, in his own way, tamed the rose by caring for her.
The Prince also learns from the railway switchman that people don't find satisfaction if they are always hurrying from place to place, never rooted. In the end, the Prince lets the snake bite him so he can return to his asteroid and his rose.