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Abstract : Identity crisis is the new affair down the literary mannerism. And to extenuate it further female characters portrayed as the one displaced from their location. A woman when marries goes to stay with the in-laws which itself is socially acknowledged dislocation of the female self. In the novel Island of Thousand Mirrors there are prominent female characters that belong to war torn Sri Lankan society and their experiences during a certain time frame are implausible. Yashodhara, Saraswati and Lanka are the characters that draw attention because Yashodhara and Lanka are sisters of Sinhalese descent whereas Saraswati is a Tamil who later joins the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Consequently, this paper looks intensively into their lives and how they have evolved into some new identity and had cast away their previous lives. There is impact of violence as well, in their lives as they change their demeanor. Female dislocation is itself a transgression and the death of two female characters in Sri Lanka at the end of the novel relates to the journey and the affinity they have pulled through being apart.