Be True to Yourself!

Page 219 Chapter 9 discusses the mantel that only fit one maiden perfectly. When any other maiden put on the mantel it immediately showed all of their flaws. Their unfaithfulness, misdeeds and sins. Yet at the end of the third paragraph it states "Dispite all this, everyone still wanted to own the mantel." My question has two parts, first why did everyone still want to own it? Was it because it represented everything all the maidens wanted to be and second, is it right to want something which represents something you are not?