In the poem “the highwayman”, why do the redcoats come to the inn?

In the poem The Highwayman, the redcoats come to the inn because He did not want to be seen by anyone but Bess.

go to crash course lititure and go to seconed page and it shows a video about that

femininity is conveyed through bernice's personality. she doesn't act how the other girls act and everyone thinks she is weird. she learns how to act in a way that was considered femininely appropriate at the time. she becomes so popular but her attempts to be liked end up backfiring when she is pressured into bobbing her hair. the author wrote that bernice cut off her cousin's hair in revenge for tricking her to cut her hair. this was the authors way of trying to change the way feminine is defined and the way women are expected to act.