In the afterword to the 1989 reissue of The Price of Salt, Patricia Highsmith writes of the overwhelmingly positive responses she had received from readers since the novel’s initial publication in 1952: “Many of the letters that came to me carried such messages as ‘Yours is the first book like this with a happy ending! We don’t all commit suicide and lots of us are doing fine’” (311). This reaction was caused by the novel’s uplifting conclusion, which, given the subject matter, was a rarity at the time. As Highsmith explains,

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“我们很多人做得很好”：淡淡的影迷小说，幸福的结局和食盐价格的经典扩张

在1989年重新发行《盐的价格》一书的后记中，帕特里夏·海史密斯（Patricia Highsmith）自从1952年该小说首次出版以来，收到了读者的强烈反响：“我收到的许多信都带有这样的信息：像这样的第一本书以圆满的结局！我们并不是所有人都自杀，我们很多人都做得很好。”（311）这种反应是由小说的令人振奋的结论引起的，就主题而言，这在当时是罕见的。正如史密斯（Highsmith）所说，