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Abstract The main objective of this study is analyzing the feminine identity in the historic novel The golden horse (2005), of the Panamanian writer Juan David Morgan (1942). Although the novel is considered as a historic one that its main topic is the construction of Panama railroad in the 19th century, but thanks to the diaries of Elizabeth, it contains inside its parts another story of love, pain, and desolation. So, we are going to study the forms, the lines, and the results of the long process of searching the feminine identity, by analyzing the diaries of Elizabeth. For that reason, the current study is based on the identification of various concepts, like: the feminine identity, the patriarchal ideology, and the generic classification. By means of analyzing the parts that addresses the departure of Elizabeth and her servant from their home country, and their adventures during the journey of searching for her husband in the isthmus. We will interpret her separation of her home as an aristocratic lady, which exposes her to the generic oppression; the difficulties of displacement that lets her acts according to the concepts of assigned genre and opted genre; the oscillation between the equality and inequality among a society of men; and finally, her self-realization and self-definition as a lonely lady in a strange patriarchal society |