Mansfield Part One

When twenty-one-year-old Ted Smith travels east to college by train in 1939 he makes a side trip to the town of Mansfield. This excursion to view the renowned Mansfield mansion may change the course of his life.<p> As Ted peers up at the mansion Walter Mansfield looks out and is dismayed to see a figure resembling his son Walter who perished in the Great War. Entranced Mansfield quickly decides that Ted is a reincarnation of Walter and befriends the young man to have a second chance at being a father. Mansfield has grand plans for Ted and introduces him to the East Coast high society life.<p> Ted sent to the Ivy League college by his first-generation immigrant parents is expected to graduate and return to the Midwest to assist with the expansion of his family's mom-and-pop grocery store into a chain. But Ted becomes entangled in Mansfield family politics and complicates the situation when he falls in love with Morgan Carnegie whose family doesn't approve of him.<p> The once-na��ve young man from the Midwest comes of age and struggles with his love life and ambition which is in opposition to his family's expectations.