Carmichael Paul Rayley and Minta Doyle Woolf writes about her that she brings them together But Bankes does not feel this beauty He only sees wasted hours He fails to see the deeper harmony Mrs Ramsay creates Bankes s Lonely Perspective Bankes is alone He never married He lives by reason not by emotion At the dinner table in the summer house he feels separate He cannot share Mrs Ramsay s warmth He cannot enjoy the laughter of James Cam or Lily Briscoe His lonely view makes him judge harshly For him the dinner is only noise and food not meaning So Woolf says about his loneliness that William Bankes--poor man who had no wife and no children and dined alone William Bankes calls the dinner party a waste of time because of his rational mind his contrast with Mrs Ramsay s vision and his lonely perspective Yet for others the same dinner becomes a moment of unity and beauty