# Arthur Amy — New Hampshire character guide

> Arthur Amy in New Hampshire by Robert Frost.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Art, The Arthur Amy

**First appearance:** 0003-the-census-taker

## Snapshot

One of the named New Hampshire friends the narrator counts against Massachusetts, a local presence folded into the state's stubborn, unglamorous character.

## Who they are

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 glorious bards' targets — the people Massachusetts poets want to make over — and the narrator's refusal to improve them is a refusal to improve him. His presence anchors the poem's argument that art might almost wish such people worse rather than better.

## In the story

### [Two Witches](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/two-witches)

Referenced in 'The Pauper Witch of Grafton' as the woman's husband, who courted her by accusing her of witchcraft and later embraced her witch identity.

### [II: The Pauper Witch of Grafton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/new_hampshire_se/chapters/ii-the-pauper-witch-of-grafton)

The narrator's husband, who initially interfered in the Huse business and later embraced her witch identity.

## Links

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