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Speech act is considered one of the foundations of creating verbal communication in literary works. The theory of "speech act" is one of the important topics in discourse analysis in the field of linguistics, which was initially introduced by "Austin" and then "Searle" classified it into five categories. Based on this theory, the exchange of information takes place in the form of structures and speech acts, and by focusing on them in a text, the social situation and position of the individuals in the work can be analyzed, and the hidden layers of the characters can be better understood. Simin Daneshvar's novel "The Island of Wandering" has noticeable speech acts that vary based on the gender of the individuals. In this article, an attempt to extract, classify, and then explain and analyze the speech of women and men in this novel based on Searle's theory of speech acts. The relationship between speech acts and the social situation of the individuals in the work has also been evaluated. The results of this study show that there are gender inequalities between women and men in the society introduced in "The Island of Wandering," which leads to dissatisfaction and frustration in the female characters of the story, portraying women in society as passive and marginalized. It seems that society is deprived of educated and enlightened women. Therefore, the speech acts of the characters in the story are consistent and homogeneous with the purpose and intention of the narrator.