Diploma Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1, course: 20th Century Literature, language: English, abstract: The present paper tries to capture the very essence of the 20th century in Fitzgerald's universe of fiction, mainly the short one. The first chapter, "20th Century American Short Fiction," picks up three of the best short story writers of the 20th century and their career as professional writers. The aim was to reveal the way the relationship between the reader and the text establishes, how the text is received and what the reader brings to...