Banmaw Tin Aung (10)

This post contains page 1 (p.70 in the volume I have) of the short story "Saw Khin and her livelihood" by Banmaw Tin Aung. A full version of this story in PDF format is available here.

Vocabulary:

လေးနက် ။ to be worthy of serious consideration; weighty; deep; profound
အမိအရ ။ firmly; securely
သလော ။ part. word used in forming a question
သားမယား ။ wife, family
တိုက်ခိုက် ။ to dash or strike against, attack, fight against
အပြန်တစ်ရာ ။ many times over

Translation:

[Other than that], where could [she] get some other job that gets as much as 125 [kyat] per month like now?

(5)

Finally, Saw Khin came to think deeply that in the present era a wife's livelihood was just one big job. That livelihood work was not bad work like other [types of work]. It was work that could get a husband. For real, in the present era, was it not the case that for the livelihood of a women, the occupation that could most set one at ease was work that could securely catch hold of a man. Any man would look for work and support his wife. If [he] could not simply find work, would [he] not covertly fight and be able to support [his wife]?

Since [she] had discarded [her] first husband, Saw Khin though hard [about how] to get a livelihood and another husband. Work for which a wife had to change one husband for a second husband was not very good. Was it not the case that if [a woman went] from a second husband to a third husband, Myanmar women would drop the status of that kind of woman? Therefore, in one life [work] that was repeatedly disheartening...