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Ted now strives to prove himself to Larry and the other executives at Above All, to thwart the rumor of his imminent firing. Before Ted leaves Above All for Chicago, he and Willie have a falling-out. Ted perceives it as security through fealty. He surrounds himself with yes men and rewards those that let Willie all but run their lives for them. Willie is virtually blind to incompetence and seeks unconditional loyalty. Ted's former boss, Willie – who had left Above All to be a television executive in Chicago, Illinois – had a more lenient management approach. Without the article, Ted's stunt will backfire, the movie may flop, and Ted is certain to be fired.

Ted hopes to secure a headlining article to back up a publicity stunt for Above All's latest movie. Larry takes the Machiavellian approach to management, even convincing Ted to shed crocodile tears over his potentially destitute family during a business dinner with a magazine editor. Although Ted has experience in the specious marketing game played between publicists, actors, directors, producers, and tabloid journalists, he feels trapped in office politics after a rumor is started that he is about to be fired by his new boss, Larry.

His high salary affords him a nice car and furnishes his large apartment, where he lives with his wife, Roxy, and their two children. Ted is a publicity department executive at the Manhattan office of Above All Pictures, a movie production company in the mid-1950s.

It is a play on wall-to-wall carpeting, signifying one of the many modern luxuries enjoyed by the main character, a high-paid publicity executive, who feels trapped in his position at a movie production company. Unlike his crime novels penned under the name John Godey, Morton Freedgood wrote this novel under his own name having worked for years in the publicity departments at several movie companies.

The Wall-to-Wall Trap (published in 1957) is a novel by Morton Freedgood. JSTOR ( June 2009) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: "The Wall-to-Wall Trap" – news Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources.