Word choices that convey the story's setting -- in fact the two different settings -- include the "wild bay" and the "safe beach." We know, right away, that we are in a beachy, vacation setting based on words like "shore" and "holiday"; further, Jerry focuses on the swinging of his mother's "white, naked arm" and how she carries her "bright-striped bag" and, later, how she sits under her beach umbrella that "looked like a slice or orange peel." Moreover, the narrator's descriptions of the wild bay and its unpredictability help to convey the sense of danger in this setting. It has "rough, sharp rock" with water that "showed stains of purple and darker blue." Even more notable are the description of rocks that lay on the ocean bottom as "discolored monsters" and the mentions of "irregular cold currents" that "shocked [Jerry's] limbs." The water is a "solid, heavy blue," letting us know that the setting is, indeed, a large body of water.
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