I think that Ivan's epiphany was when he realized that the selIvan Ilyich and Gabriel Conroy are both very interesting characters. They both have many similarities and also have many differences from each other. Ivan was a very successful member of the Court of Justice, and worked his whole life to get to where he was. Gabriel Conroy is short tempered, has social awkwardness, and to his family has many faces as to the way he acts around them. Ivan and Gabriel both have struggling marriages and their epiphanies are the same because at the end of each of the stories they both have an epiphany of pain and suffering that relieves them, but their aspects and points they have on their lives are different.flessness that he did was a better life than
