# Unknown Narrator 2 — North of Boston character guide

> Unknown Narrator 2 in North of Boston by Robert Frost.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** your, myself

**First appearance:** 0002-north-of-boston

## Snapshot

A second first-person presence in the collection, listening, questioning, and turning over what the neighbors say about work, pride, and the people they thought they knew.

## Who they are

This narrator moves through several poems as an observer and interlocutor, drawing out other people's stories rather than driving his own. He is curious, patient, and slightly detached, the kind of listener who notices how a man holds a stick or where a cloud crosses the moon. His presence gives the book its wandering, unhurried intimacy, letting readers overhear rural lives without being told what to feel.

## In the story

### [Mending Wall](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/north_of_boston_se/chapters/mending-wall)

The neighbor who insists on maintaining the wall, repeating the proverb 'Good fences make good neighbours.'

### [Blueberries](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/north_of_boston_se/chapters/blueberries)

The listener who questions and responds to the primary speaker about the blueberries and Loren.

### [The Code](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/north_of_boston_se/chapters/the-code)

The country-born hired hand who explains the code and recounts the story of Sanders.

### [The Fear](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/north_of_boston_se/chapters/the-fear)

The man encountered on the road, who speaks calmly and reveals he is walking with his child.

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