This essay re-examines the concept of epiphany developed in Joyce`s Stephen Hero and compares the technique and theme of the epiphany narrated in Joyce`s Dubliners with Louis Becke`s tales. The epiphany, as “a sudden spiritual manifestation” occurring “in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture,” is achieved when the observing character or the reader unexpectedly receives a keen impression from a casual image or utterance that manifests paralysis as the truth of colonial life. Becke`s stories “A Point of Theology” and “A Dead Loss,” which are thematically comparable to Joyce`s “The Sisters” and “Two Gallants” respectively, are narrated in stark realism and create a strong impression that evokes the epiphany of colonial corruption at the end. In each epiphanic moment, “A Point of Theology” and “The Sisters” commonly reveal the demoralization of the colony under Christianity, while “A Dead Loss” and “Two Gallants” similarly illuminate the corruption of the colony under commercialism. Becke`s epiphanies thus show that the epiphany as a narrative technique was already employed by Becke in the stories that also reveal the paralysis of British colonies before the concept was introduced by Joyce.