#how is this subtle

[readingincasa]

I started Wuthering Heights thinking that Heathcliff being Romani/Indian/mixed was a subtext, just vague implications that may have various interpretations, seeing how the topic brings out so many heated arguments.

And within the first chapter Lockwood described him to be dark-skinned and called Heathcliff a slur. This is literally the opposite of a subtext. It's in your face. Emily Brontë could come back from the grave and confirm it on a Twitter post and there will still be people that say "She doesn't know what she's talking about"