Many masks, many selves presentation

In "many masks, many selves" Wendy Doniger educates the reader of the many different personalities people use, which is affected by their current envoirnment. Doniger indicates that there are many examples to chose from, but she decides to use politics and gender. The examples within these two categories include Ronald Reagan, "the acting president," and cross dressers. Both the cross dressers and Reagan chose different masks according to the audience they were trying to please. Doniger provides simpler examples such as an adult censoring his or her  language around a young child. However, the main point behind these examples is that we are always wearing a mask. In the search for who we really are, we don't realize that we are the masks that we wear. "We need our masks."