We all have experienced mental conflicts arose because of the incompatibility of our different needs, which results in mental stress and anxiety. Defense Mechanism is a strategy, employed to eliminate or at least to reduce this psychological stress and anxiety. They do not solve our problem but reduce our mental stress temporarily and help us to buy mental peace for the time-being. Nature gives us peace and pleasant feeling. It is a producer, a preserver, and a destroyer. A visit to a seashore,

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... a walk in the garden area, taking a deep breadth in the open terrace or even a view of a green tree has the capacity of taking away your deadly pain for few seconds. This research article explores the role played by Nature in lowering the unbearable pain of Thangam, the protagonist, of the short story In A Forest, A Deer by Ambai.