Hello kathleenfromnorth kingstown,
Thank you for reaching out to Apple Support Communities, and we'll be happy to help in any way we can. We understand you're having issues with your Mail app displaying incorrectly. This article has some steps that may be useful to you: Troubleshoot email problems in Mail on Mac - Apple Support
If those don't help, test this issue in another user account. What we need to do, is log out of your current user. Log back in under another Standard or Administrator account and see if the same issue occurs there. This way we can tell if it is an issue with your user account, or if it is system wide: Add a user or group on Mac - Apple Support
We hope this helps.
Cheers!