Meyer's never terribly big on justifying how the Cullens remain secret--
Actually, that's not harsh enough. Meyer genuinely seems to think her imbecilic viewpoint character is brilliant, and the ridiculously laborious process Bella goes through, including being directly told "the Cullens are vampires," is the very least the most intelligent human would ever require to realize that the Cullens are vampires.
(The big oh-jeez-is-she-even-trying moment for me was in Midnight Sun, where she reveals that the Cullens get perfect grades, in all their classes, always. I suppose we should be glad they don't play on school sports teams and openly use their strength and speed to make the rest of the teams irrelevant...
...or at least, we aren't explicitly told that they do.)
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Actually, that's not harsh enough. Meyer genuinely seems to think her imbecilic viewpoint character is brilliant, and the ridiculously laborious process Bella goes through, including being directly told "the Cullens are vampires," is the very least the most intelligent human would ever require to realize that the Cullens are vampires.
(The big oh-jeez-is-she-even-trying moment for me was in Midnight Sun, where she reveals that the Cullens get perfect grades, in all their classes, always. I suppose we should be glad they don't play on school sports teams and openly use their strength and speed to make the rest of the teams irrelevant...
...or at least, we aren't explicitly told that they do.)