The distinction between the space A and the tangent space of A becomes visually clear if we consider a function whose domain is a sphere. The derivative is properly defined on the tangent plane, which only touches the sphere at a single point. However in the neighborhood of that point, the plane and sphere are very, very close together. But are inevitably pulled away by the curvature of the sphere.

Of course that picture is not formally correct. We formally define the tangent space without having to embed the manifold in Euclidean space. But that picture is a correct description of an embedding of both the sphere and the tangent space at a single point.