# New Hampshire — Character guide

> Key figures in New Hampshire by Robert Frost.

- [Paul](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/characters/paul.md): Paul moves through the poems as a figure of local speculation, a man who put on airs about a wife and kept her so entirely to himself that the whole countryside misjudged him. What Murphy witnesses — the two of them keep
- [Arthur Amy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/characters/art_arthur_amy.md): Arthur Amy belongs to the roll of Windham, Atkinson, Raymond, and Derry men the speaker invokes as proof that New Hampshire, whatever its little men, gave him friends he never found elsewhere. He stands among the gloriou
- [Brad McLaughlin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/characters/brad_mclaughlin.md): Brad McLaughlin moves through the New Hampshire poems as part of the human furniture of the state — the kind of neighbor whose doings and sayings the narrator records without fuss. He belongs to the same landscape as the
- [Laban](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/characters/laban.md): Laban belongs to the cast of New Hampshire specimens — one each of everything, as the poem says, kept in the state's show-case and not for sale. He is the sort of neighbor whose name the narrator drops without explanatio
- [Joe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/characters/joe_john.md): A common name used for a generic male character in multiple poems.
- [Mallice Huse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/characters/mallice_huse.md): Mallice Huse appears among the named inhabitants who give the New Hampshire poems their sense of a place thick with specific, uncelebrated people. Like the townships named but without population, such figures are part of
- [Old Davis](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/characters/old_davis.md): An elderly character who appears in multiple poems.
- [Baptiste](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/characters/baptiste.md): Baptiste lives cast away among Yankees, anxious to be given his human rating, and he uses the curves of his axe-helves to draw the narrator inside his house and his confidence. His wife, Mrs. Baptiste, rocks a chair with
- [Toffile](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/characters/toffile.md): A named character, possibly a local eccentric or farmer.
- [Clara Robinson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/characters/clara_robinson.md): A female character appearing in at least one poem.
- [Morgan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/characters/morgan.md): A named character, possibly a neighbor or traveler.
- [Maple](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/characters/maple.md): A personified or named character in the poem 'Maple'.
- [Mother](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/characters/mother.md): A maternal figure appearing in several poems.
- [Murphy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/characters/murphy.md): A named character, likely a local resident.
- [Eliza](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/characters/eliza.md): A female character appearing in at least one poem.
- [Mabel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/characters/mabel.md): A named female character in a poem.
- [John Smith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/characters/john_smith.md): A generic name used for a character in a poem.
- [Orion](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/characters/orion.md): A named character, possibly a mythological reference personified.
- [Son](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/characters/son.md): A young male character, possibly a child in a poem.

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