Question

When Stefan's mother hands him a rejection letter from the college he had been dreaming of going to for four years, Stefan shrugs and says that he didn't really want to go to that college anyway. He says he had already decided to go to his second-choice school, which had accepted him a week earlier. Stefan is most likely employing a defense mechanism, because he views the rejection letter as a ______.

Answer 1

failure

Step-by-step explanation:

the reason he view the rejection letter that way is because he was dreaming of that school for four years.