i'm not sure if I see what you are saying about Seymour,but I don't think he is in love with his little friend.nor do I think Phoebe is in there because of the same thing with Holden.Maybe if you can explain their interests in children some more.Mr. Antonili,I don't know.I could see it,but there's not much there in the story to support it with him.That scene has always bothered me to but I have always thought that maybe jds wrote it because of the way people looked at homosexuals at that time