There's something both beautiful/enchanting and deeply tragic about the story.

If anyone's interested in an analysis of Saint-Exupéry's psychology via the symbolism of The Little Prince, the book "The Problem of the Puer Aeternus" by Marie-Louise von Franz [1] is absolutely fascinating.

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1404609.The_Problem_of_t...