When Blanche found her husband having sex with another man. Blanche, her husband and her friend went out dancing as if it had never happened. Then, while the Varsouviana was playing, she was dancing with Allen, her husband, she told him she thought it was disgusting and he left and shot himself in the head. This tragedy follows her throughout her life with the polka, every time she listens to the song she goes back to that night. Blanche believed that having sex with younger, multiple men proved her worth and would make her younger and allow her to avoid death itself in her mind. In scene nine Blanche is horrified when a woman who sells flowers for the dead tells of her fate. Blanche's madness was bred by her inability to act appropriately on her desires and fear of human mortality. Throughout the play we see that sex and death are connected in almost every aspect of Blanche's life. In other words, one can see how Blanche's sexual history leads to her