I think this is true, but that the beauty is meant to serve as a farcical contrast to the triviality and lack of meaning in Barry's story. The point was really

I think this is true, but that the beauty is meant to serve as a farcical contrast to the triviality and lack of meaning in Barry's story. The point was really driven home with the final scene of the story being accompanied by Handel's Sarabande, a work of monumental gravitas implying transcendent tragedy, when in reality Barry was a nobody, a jerk with no morals or conviction hardly deserving a second thought.