In her short story, “Tin Man,” Judy Budnitz uses irony to perfectly demonstrate the impact of family pressure, and how manipulation is a very powerful thing that can get us to do risky things. Right away, the title of the story allows readers to picture the movie character, Tin Man, from the Wizard Of Oz, who was searching for a heart. In the story, the protagonist Arnie, was being manipulated and gaslighted by his family, to give up his own heart to save his mother, who was in need of a transplant. Even though Arnie did not want to, his two Aunts, Nina and Fran, were pressuring him into…