The characters in this section, except the Lamplighter, represent adults thoughts and attitudes.  For example, the King is kind of human ego, the Businessman represents to gain money or benefit, so in this story, the stars show money.  The geographer represents to be honor and the vain man represents self-loving.  So all these people represent [...]

The businessman was very busy to calculate.  He has a lot of money.  He is satisfied with placing money in the bank.  Is he happy or unhappy?
Azusa said that he is unhappy because he doesn’t have a chance to use it.  Kaori said that he is happy because he likes to calculate and make money.  [...]

Every grown-up thinks they should be independent or strong, but actually they feel lonely at the same time. They can’t show their weakness or real feelings, so they want to run away from themselves. For example, the drunkard always drinks to forget his weakness because he should solve his weakness by himself.
The gentleman [...]

Everyone is lonely and works to forget the loneliness.  They make themselves busy and complain about business.
The King is a contradictory person because he seems to be knowledgeable and he wants to be reasonable king, but he can’t follow his words.
The author has a negative view of this world.  He wants to argue social issues [...]

We talked about who is the silliest character. Each character has his own irony for the grown-ups. We though geographer has narrow mind. He can only hear what he wants. He is studying about mountain, but he didn’t experience mountain, so he can’t write about real mountain.
I searched The Little Prince. [...]

There is a drunkard in this book.  He drank a lot to forget something ashames, and we were very interested in that, so we discussed about it.  We sometimes see this kind of adult.  Why do they drink instead of other activity to forget something?
Mami said it is easy to do because they drink while [...]