The author of “Tin Man”, Judy Budnitz, by using a first-person narrator, shows how the effects of mental manipulation and gaslighting can lead to loosing one’s aspirations, being dead in life. Following Arnie’s mom’s heart attack, Aunt Fran, Aunt Nina, and Arnie are in the hospital; a heart donor is needed, that’s the point where they start insisting Arnie, the narrator, to donate his heart. The aunts persist on making Arnie yield, “you have a college education! Your heart is exactly what she needs” (Budnitz 2). It also important the mention of the college education, as it is continuously…