The aim of this master´s thesis was to find standard guidelines of "superfluous man" in the period of the first Croatian modern. The corps of selected works are: Janko Borislavić by Ksavier Šandora Đalski, Misao na vječnost and Sjene ljubavi by Janko Leskovar and Bijeg by Milutin Cikalar Nehajev. Special accent is placed on the dominant character of "superfluous man", it's emergence and development. As "superfluous man" is socially motivated character, we showed literaral, social and political conditions during the first Croatian modern. We pointed out the existence of "superfluous" features in the period of the 19th century through the characters "prijan" Lovro and Janko Borislavić. By analysing the characters of Đuro Martić, Marcel Bušinski and Đuro Andrijašević we presented similarities with "superfluous man". Guided by the theoretical postulates of P. Hamon, we have established a semantic label of Croatian version "superfluous man" pointing out the similarities and variations with Russian. We have also observed from readers aspect to the theoretical assumptions V. Jouvea. In this paper we also show why these characters can be displayed in a reference frame of "superfluous man" and slight variations of the same. Selected characters are indicators of development of individual characters from the dominant by mild moving away from a given referential framework.