new female professor who he has come to know. "Lonely and smitten, Sherman decides to become a human guinea pig in hopes of improving his romantic prospects" (Brennan 1). It works, the overweight professor chugs down the potion and is "transformed" into a skinny "self." However, unlike Gregor, the change is not permanent. A few hours later the potion wears off and the professor returns to his normal fat self. Later in the movie he discovers that if he drinks enough of the potion the c!
             hange could be permanent but as it turns out he never does make the permanent change.
             The physical metamorphosis is apparent but as we can more easily see in the movie, the superficial metamorphosis
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