Leonardo Sciascia's To Each His Own

The mentality of anyone fictitious or not has an underlying meaning. One cannot begin to understand someone, without knowing the others mentality, or even one 's own mentality. Within To Each His Own the mentality of the characters correlates to the title; To Each His Own and willful blindness coincide. To know when to mind one 's own business and not to oust anyone. Willful blindness has aided Leonardo Sciascia 's use of a third person limited narrator within the book. just the use of a third person narrator in general with a text has its own purpose when reading the book one can start to understand why Sciascia chose to use a third person limited perspective narrator. This can be acknowledged as something more valuable than what one would

Willful blindness aided Sciascia 's use of a third person perspective narrator. Due to the third person limited perspective, one only knows the thoughts of the main character. When the main character has a conversation the reader knows why they respond the way they do, but when another character responds, the reader only knows what they say. "…. 'Because if we confine ourselves to town, any newborn infant knows the answer… '" (Sciascia 81). Everyone knows the answer to who the killer is, yet no one chooses to come forth with the information. This is being stated through a character who the readers know little to nothing about. Due to the narrator only seeing into one person 's head, the reader only gets to know what is presented to them by the conversation between characters or through

Sciascia uses willful blindness through a third person perspective showing important reasons for why the characters do things, "… Experience counts, say what you will. A waste of time to go looking for a needle in a haystack… a needle through which you cannot thread a way into the next stage of the investigation..." (Sciascia 41). This is the reason for the characters to turn a blind eye on the killers and murders because they know it is no use. The reader gets further into the text one can start to see how the information provided may be all too useful, but the situation remains where they know it will not be used because everyone will not see what is there. The narrator gets to portray their reasons as a narrative instead of their thoughts, this including everyone in the story besides the