Great Expectations: Life Story of Phillip Gargery Hello. My name is Phillip Gargery, and this is my life story. I was born to my mom and dad, but they died, so I lived with my sister, Mrs. Joe, and her husband, Joe Gargery. I had it rough. My sister was really mean to Joe and I . I think it was because I wasn’t her child. Joe didn’t want to even marry her, but he was basically forced to. So he had it bad too. She would often yell at us if we did one little thing wrong. It was rough. I was always part of the lower class, because we didn’t really have money. That was because Joe was a blacksmith, which back then wasn’t too great of a job to ha