Answer:
the new cloak
Explanation:
The new cloak represents the change that Odysseus went through in front of everyone. That's because the cloak was used when Odysseus disguised himself as a beggar, it gave him a weak, irrelevant, fragile and dying image, but the new cloak gave him the grandeur he had as a hero, letting him look like a god and he was a man totally different from what he looked like or what they thought of him.
It was the English. The company was called the Dutch East India Company.
United States saw it as another alliance.