The authors purpose is to characterize Inigo by using rhetorical questions. “Another outlaw?”.”What a truly extraordinary adventurer this man in black must be. He was close enough now for Inigo to realize that the man was masked, a black hood covering all his features.” He has an attitude that this was not the only man that he has killed and won't be the last either. “Then why should they have to fight and for what?” “Inigo shook his head. It was a shame that such a fellow must die, but he had his orders, so there it was.” He is very cocky knowing that he will win and he has some type of hate that he has to kill the man in black. “But what could he do” “Without the brains of the Sicilian, he, Inigo would never be able to command jobs