What is the family’s main problem? The father made a poor investment that resulted in their financial ruin. The mother wants to visit a resort but they cannot agree on a destination. The daughters did not receive a good education and cannot obtain employment. The parents are concerned about their daughters living a secluded life.

MONEY

Explanation:His investment caused him to not be able to afford education for his kids. His finances to plummeted and his wife cannot go on the vacation that she really wants to go on. His daughters will never have money because they cannot get jobs. They live a secluded life because they don't want people to know how poor they are

Arthur Miller is the author of the play "The Crucible," which describes the Salem Witch Trials in a dramatized and fictionalized way. The play was intended to serve as an allegory for McCarthyism. McCarthyism is the name of a doctrine named after senator Joseph McCarthy. This doctrine advocated persecution of communist sympathizers, often without evidence and when the accused had not committed a crime. Miller himself suffered as a result of this doctrine, as he was questioned by the House of Representatives' Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956, and convicted of contempt of Congress. He believed these trials were a "witch hunt" similar to that of Salem hundreds of years earlier. Therefore, the purpose of writing this play was to bring attention to these issues and force people to reflect on the morality and legality of this persecution.