The theme of this paper deals with the identity formation and reconfiguration of characters in Three Generations of People, exploring how these characters use and recombine their multiple elements of identity according to different situations. This paper includes five dimensions. First, the researcher takes national allegory as a point of departure, regarding national allegory as the representation of "absence." Taiwan Trilogy is both about the absence of Taiwan national identity and the description of the emergence and decline of Japanese nationalism. Second, this paper points out the multiple elements of identity formation, including gender, class, generation, nation, and desire. The third part discusses the dynamic process of re-configuring the multiple elements of identity. The fourth part deals with the phenomenon that after the defeat of Japan in the WWII, those who had identified with Japanese nationalism came into the state of de-nationalization. Finally, some of the characters develop a new stage of "non-identity." Non-identity is not a passive stage of having no identity at all. Instead, it produces a distance so that new identity can be formed from the broken pieces of old identity. From this novel we can observe the phenomenon that national identity has to be built by gender, class, generation in daily life, and it involves the complicated entanglement of Taiwan and Japan as well as Taiwan and China. In addition to the analysis of Three Generations of People, this paper also presents an overall assessment of Taiwan Trilogy. It is argued that gender issues are more important than national issues in these three books, and Taiwan Trilogy presents multiple ways of imagining post-colonial subjectivity and the forever deferral of Taiwan national identity, thereby confirming "absence" as the characteristic of allegory.