The masks of inscrutability, or are you really you?

[The Saucepan Man]

So the feeling that I am getting is along the lines that the images other people give us are only masks if we accept them as such?

Just as in real life, people base their image of you on what you give out to them (consciously or subconsciously). And they may be way off, or they might be more accurate than you'd care to admit ...