Through a first-person narrator, the author of “Tin Man” makes you sympathize with our main character Arnie and view him as the only reasonable and sane person of the bunch. Thanks to the narrator, manipulation through gaslighting is what the story portrays. He is being patronized by his peers to make him do something he doesn’t want to do. After learning his mother was suffering from heart problems, Arnie’s aunts were demanding that he should donate his healthy heart to his mom. “What about your heart?” “Are you crazy?” (Budnitz 1). His aunts, without a second thought, do not think about…