Though Highsmith had many sexual and romantic relationships with women and wrote over 22 novels and numerous short stories, The Price of Salt is her only novel about an unequivocal lesbian relationship and its relatively happy ending was unprecedented in lesbian literature.
Meskipun Highsmith memiliki beberapa hubungan percintaan dan seksual dengan wanita dan menulis lebih dari 22 novel dan sejumlah cerpen, The Price of Salt adalah satu-satunya novel tentang hubungan lesbian dan akhir yang relatif bahagian yang tak terduga dalam kesusastraan lesbian.